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Edmund "Ed" Hartman (1957- ) is an award-winning composer and percussionist who has been active in Pacific Northwest film and music communities since moving to the region in 1979. Hartman is originally from Evanston, Illinois and began his music career studying under jazz drummer Fred Silver and mallet performer Al Skinner. Additional music influences were Dan Spaulding and Randy Hogancamp from nearby Northwestern University and Don Owens from Hartman's high school. Hartman received his Bachelor of Music degree in percussion from Indiana University studying under Richard Johnson. After college he moved to the Pacific Northwest where he founded the Opus 1 music series.

During his career Hartman scored music for film, television, and radio, with credits including The Blind Side (2009), the restored 1937 silent film As the Earth Turns (2019), which Hartman was also produced; and numerous television channels such as HBO, NBC, ABC, Discovery, and Animal Planet. Hartman's style is characterized by a diversity of influences from jazz, pop, Latin, world, and electronic music, though most commonly in the domain of classical orchestral music, including baroque music and counterpoint. As a performer, Hartman has collaborated with many bands, orchestras, dance companies, and theatre companies throughout his career, and is considered a "top freelance percussionist and recording artist" in the Pacific Northwest. He also has his own bands, The Olympic Marimba Band (world music) and Northwest Passage (jazz music), and performs as a percussion soloist and one-man band at concerts, festivals, and schools. A full profile of Hartman's performing and recording credits can be found on his website, Ed Hartman Music.

Sources: "Bio/Credits," Ed Hartman Music. Accessed on November 7, 2024. "Composer/Producer Ed Hartman talks about, As the Earth Turns," Movie Music International (MMI). Accessed on November 7, 2024.

Opus 1, or Opus One, was a music series founded by Ed Hartman that ran from 1980-1985. The series consisted of several concerts per year in which Pacific Northwest composers debuted and/or performed their music in collaboration with instrumentalists and vocalists. The concerts were performed at Seattle venues such as Soundwork Hall, Washington Hall Performance Gallery, and Broadway Performance Hall. Some music was experimental, with a quirky and humorous presentation. Some examples include: "The Carol Beers Fan Club" and a "Boom Box Symphony," where audience members were invited to bring AM or FM radios as instruments; and works using unconventional instrumentation, including an empty wine bottle and a 31-tone conduit marimba. Ed Hartman was frequently featured in programs from 1980-1985 as a composer or collaborator, alongside other regular performers such as Joel Salsman (pianist and composer), Warren Shaffer (composer and baritone, conductor, hornist), Paul Smith (composer and banjoist), Alan Youngblood (composer), Jay Hamilton (composer), Alan Hovhaness (composer), and Klaus Lendzian (composer).