Steve Bartek
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Steve Bartek, born in Garfield Heights, Ohio on January 30, 1952, is an American guitarist, film composer, conductor and orchestrator.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Early career
Bartek started off with the short lived band Strawberry Alarm Clock.
Between 1979 and 1995, Bartek played lead guitar in New Wave band Oingo Boingo, led by Danny Elfman.
[edit] Film and television
Bartek has composed music for television series like The Tick, Tales from the Crypt and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, and movies like An Extremely Goofy Movie, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion and Snow Day. In 1992 he was nominated for a Saturn Award for his soundtrack to Guilty as Charged but lost to Loek Dikker and Body Parts. In 2005, together with Danny Elfman and Stewart Copeland, he was awarded an BMI Film & TV Award for his work on Desperate Housewives.
As an orchestrator Bartek has worked on over 50 productions, as of 2007, including most Tim Burton productions, Mission Impossible, Good Will Hunting, Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and The Simpsons Movie.
[edit] Other work
Steve Bartek did horn arrangements for Avenged Sevenfold's song "A Little Piece Of Heaven" as well as for John Haitt's "Little Head." He produced Raya Yarbrough's eponymous album and arranged strings for the song "Early Autumn." He also did a string arrangement for Ricky Martin's "Vuelve."
Bartek plays guitar for the modern day Battlestar Galactica underscore.
Bartek also contributed music to both the ride queue and exit of Disneyland's short-lived Rocket Rods attraction in 1998, including a synthesizer arrangement of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" and an original composition entitled "World of Creativity."
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