Karen Anne Tarlow (born September 19, 1947)[1] is an American composer[2] and music educator[3] who has composed multi-media pieces and many choral works based on Hebrew texts.
She received a Howard Lebow Memorial Scholarship in 1972 and studied in Germany at the University of Freiburg.
Her teachers included Philip Bezanson, Wolfgang Fortner, Charles Fussell, Malcolm Peyton, Gardner Read,[6] Robert Stern, Frederick Tillis and David del Tredici.
[8] She is a retired assistant professor of music theory from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She belongs to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and has received commissions from Da Camera Singers, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the Hampshire Young People's Chorus, and the Picture Book Theatre.