Bob Ostertag

Bob Ostertag has been at the cutting edge of new music for two decades. He has worked with a radically diverse range of collaborators: John Zorn and Fred Frith, heavy metal star Mike Patton, the Kronos Quartet, jazz great Anthony Braxton, dyke punk rocker Lynn Breedlove, drag diva Justin Bond, film maker Pierre Hébert, and more. Sixteen CD's of his compositions have been released.

Recent major compositions include Verbatim (commissioned by the Aaron Copland Fund for American Music and the US National Endowment for the Arts), All the Rage (commissioned for the Kronos Quartet by Lincoln Center), Spiral (commissioned by the What About AIDS? traveling art exhibit in the US), and more. He lives and works in San Francisco.