Stephen Chatman

Stephen Chatman CM (born 28 February 1950) is an American-born Canadian composer residing in Vancouver. His compositions have been performed across Canada and in the United States (Waffle 2018; Browne and Browne 2018; Anon. 2016).

Early life and education

Chatman was born in Faribault, Minnesota, and studied with Joseph R. Wood and Walter Aschaffenburg at the Oberlin Conservatory and with Ross Lee Finney, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, and Eugene Kurtz at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, completing a D.M.A. degree in 1977. He also received a Fulbright grant for study with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in 1974 (Meckna 2001).

Career

In 1976, Chatman joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. He composed a number of musical works in the 1980s, including the suite There Is Sweet Music There for chorus and oboe, and the choral work Due North (Strimple 2002, 202).

Chatman was promoted to Professor in 1987 (Meckna 2001). He later became Head of the Composition Division of the School of Music (Duke 2014)}.

He was named a Member of the Order of Canada in July 2012 (Anon. 2012). In 2014 his composition "Magnificat" was nominated for a Juno Award (Anon. 2014).

In 2017, an album of Chatman's compositions, Dawn of Night, sung by the University of Toronto MacMillan Singers, was released by Centrediscs (Ing 2018). His comic opera Choir Practice, created with Tara Wohlberg, was performed by the University of British Columbia Opera Ensemble (Wells 2019).

Notable students

John Burge, Richard Covey, Arne Eigenfeldt, John Estacio, Melissa Hui, Jocelyn Morlock, Jason Nett, Larry Nickel, John Oliver, and Rui Shi Zhuo.

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