Ethan Boxley, a native of Fort Collins CO, is working on a Masters in Composition at the New England Conservatory of Musci. He has a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University. His goal is to compose music which is beautiful and accessible, and also incorporates the complexity of earlier forms. His compositional interests include the use of early forms in modern contexts, and the use of pitches and rhythms made by water and other natural sounds in combination with more tonal musical elements. His works have been performed by the Spektral Quartet, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, Northwestern’s Renaissance singers, Denver’s Playground Ensemble and NoCo Artists.

Ethan has studied composition with Hans Thomalla, Chris Mercer, Jay Alan Yim and Juan Campoverde at the Bienen School Northwestern University. Cherise Leiter and RJ Miller, NARAS, ASCAP, at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Ethan has won a number of composition competitions with a varied portfolio. In 2009 his piano quintet Wayfarer won the Colorado MTNA Junior Division and placed second in the region.  It was performed at the MTNA winners’ recital. In 2010 his wind quartet Character Suite won the Colorado MTNA Junior Division and took third-place in the National MTNA Junior Division. In 2011 Ethan’s Fanfare for Home won the Fort Collins Symphony’s statewide, young composers(age 25 and under) fanfare competition and was premiered and recorded by the Fort Collins Symphony at the Fort Collins Symphony Youth Education Series. In 2013 his Crisis in the Hallway for piano, clarinet, flute and violoncello was performed at the 2013 Colorado Composers’ Concert.  His double-bass quintet won honorable mention for the Colorado MTNA Senior Division also in 2013.

Ethan has won honors with his piano performance. He was selected to play in the final recital of the Loveland Friends of Chamber Music piano competition in 2010 with a performance of Minuet I, II and the Gigue from Bach’s Partita in Bb. In 2012 he was invited by the Loveland Friends of Chamber Music to perform The Harmonious Blacksmith by Handel for their Midwinter concert where the chamber players played the Ludwig Spoehr Octet in E minor, based in part on the Blacksmith theme. He also performed original underscore piano improvisation for the Fossil Ridge High School production of Metamorphosis by Mary Zimmerman in November 2013.

He graduated from Fossil Ridge High School, Fort Collins, CO.  Ethan likes to make music with friends, write, play video games, hike and is an Eagle Scout.