Donald Grantham

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Donald Grantham (1947- ) is an American composer and music educator.

Grantham was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. After receiving a Bachelor of Music from the University of Oklahoma, he went on to receive his MM and DMA from the University of Southern California. For a brief period he also studied under French composer Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in France. His music has won many prestigious awards, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize, and First Prize in the National Opera Association's Biennial Composition Competition. Grantham has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three separate grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Atlanta, Cleveland, and Dallas Symphony Orchestras are among the ensembles that have commissioned Grantham to write new works. Grantham also collaborated with fellow composer Kent Kennan to author the textbook The Technique of Orchestration.

Grantham currently teaches music composition at the University of Texas at Austin.