Steve Holtje
eMusic Contributor
Steve Holtje is a Brooklyn-based poet and composer. His most recent completed project is a setting of five selections from James Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach for singer and cello. It’s a lot more creatively satisfying than his freelance editing day job, which mostly consists of rewriting the turgid prose of scientists.
He has worked for the ESP-Disk’, Black Saint and Soul Note jazz labels, been an editor at Creem and CDNOW.com, sung bass and tenor in New Amsterdam Singers, co-edited the mighty MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide, written for Fanfare, Newsday, Jazziz, and Early Music America, and toiled at a Williamsburg (Brooklyn) record store.
Like everybody in Brooklyn, he has a blog and a Soundcloud. He is also the content editor and main music critic of Culturecatch.com.
