Michael Torke

Education: Yale University

Compositions: Ecstatic Orange, Yellow Pages, Color Music, Javelin, Four Seasons, Disney Millennium Symphony, Strawberry Fields, Rapture, An American Abroad

Collaborations: New York City Ballet, Argo/Decca Records

Founded: Ecstatic Records

Appointments: Associate Composer of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Currently working on: a musical, House of Mirth, and a ballet, Italian Straw Hat

Notable: Torke’s compositions practically define post-minimalism, a music in which eclectic young composers utilize the repetitive structures of a previous generation to incorporate musical techniques from both the classical tradition and the contemporary pop world.