Stephen Chatman


Stephen Chatman is an American-born Canadian composer residing in Vancouver. His compositions have been performed across Canada and in the United States.

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.

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.
Chatman was promoted to Professor in 1987. He later became Head of the Composition Division of the School of Music

Notable students

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