HARRIET STEINKE is an American composer from Detroit, Michigan. She has been recognized by composition fellowships at the Norfolk and Tanglewood summer programs and most recently received a Charles Ives Scholarship award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has premiered across the U.S. and some of her favorite performances have been those in her hometown city of Detroit. Her music has had multiple premieres at the Detroit Institute of Arts’ reverberant Diego Rivera courtyard, including her work for six grand pianos, Let Everything Ring, which was premiered by the NYC-based piano sextet Grand Band in 2018. From 2018-2020, she was composer-in-residence for the Detroit-based new music quartet Virago, who released their debut album of Steinke’s concert length Listening for Bells in March of 2022. A Closer Listen called the album “a bright, exuberant release, a rush of spring air in the midst of winter.” Steinke is currently working with the award-winning Akropolis Reed Quintet on a programmatic Mass they commissioned for Detroit premiere in 2025. Other favorite recent projects include new works for the Albany Symphony, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Yale Cellos, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, Pro Musica of Detroit, the Voyageur Reed Quintet, and the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet. The 2023-2024 season saw the premiere of her song cycle Hymnal, a 50-minute work for the vocalist Molly McGuire that sets Alessandra Lynch’s beautiful and evocative poem “Hymnal” in a cycle of 10 songs. The work premiered at the Firehouse 12 recording studio’s live performance space in New Haven, Connecticut. Upcoming in 2024-2025, the piano-clarinet duo CRUX (pianist Lisa Moore and clarinetist Lloyd Van’t Hoff) will feature Steinke’s work Rituals on their debut album release. Harriet studied english and music at Butler University and later pursued graduate studies at the Yale School of Music. Her primary mentors include composers Michael Schelle, Martin Bresnick, Chris Theofanidis, Aaron Jay Kernis, and David Lang.