Ethan Wickman’s music has been performed by such groups as the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, Aspen Concert Orchestra, Proteus, the Gryphon Trio, and the CCM Philharmonia, and by performers such as violinist Bayla Keyes, guitarist Daniel Lippel, pianist Ananda Sukarlan, and many others.He has received commissions from The American Composers Forum, Barlow and the Mostly Modern Chamber Music Society. His incidental music was featured on select episodes of the nationally broadcast PBS series Ancestors.His orchestral work Night Prayers Ascending won the Jacob Druckman Prize for Orchestral Music at the Aspen Music Festival, and was a recent finalist for the 2005 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Award.  He is the recipient of fellowships from the Aspen Music Festival the Norfolk Contemporary Music Workshop/Yale Summer School of Music, the Wellesley Composers Conference, and the joint recipient of a grant from the Utah Arts Council, and Fulbright (Madrid, Spain).  

He holds a Doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, with additional degrees in music from Boston University and Brigham Young University.  He is Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Theory at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.