Background
He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey.
composer musicologist trumpeter
He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey.
He attended the Juilliard School, where he studied with Peter Mennin, William Bergsma, and Vincent Persichetti. He later studied composition with Otto Luening, Goffredo Petrassi, and Aaron Copland.
Korte taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1971 to 1997 and currently holds the rank of emeritus professor From 1997 to 2000 he was a visiting professor at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He lives in Cambridge, New New York