Described as a "composer of facility and imagination, the kind to whom both performers and audiences respond" (The New York Times), the music of Ethan Wickman (b. 1973) has been performed by soloists and ensembles in venues in the U.S. and around the world. He has received grants and commissions from the Barlow Endowment, Meet the Composer, the American Composers Forum, the Wisconsin Music Teachers Association, the Utah Arts Festival, the San Antonio Opera Guild, and Chicago's Music In The Loft. He was awarded the Jacob Druckman prize at the Aspen Music Festival, the Harvey Phillips Award from the International Tuba Euphonium Association, first place in the Utah Arts Festival Chamber Commission Competition, and was a finalist in the 25th annual ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Orchestral Composition Competition. He has received fellowships from the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Contemporary Music Workshop/Yale Summer School of Music, the Wellesley Composers Conference, the American Composers Orchestra/Earshot New Music Readings, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Madrid, Spain. His works have been performed by such ensembles as the the San Antonio Philharmonic, the Aspen Concert Orchestra, the Avalon String Quartet, the Soli Chamber Ensemble, the Newton Symphony, the Gryphon Trio, Flexible Music, members of the Silk Road Ensemble, and by many performers at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and at universities and concert halls both domestic and international.
Wickman holds a DMA in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, with additional degrees from Boston University (MM) and Brigham Young University (BM). An accomplished oud player, Wickman has studied with Egyptian virtuoso Ramy Adly, and with Yurdal Tokcan in Istanbul, Türkiye. He is Professor of Music at the University of Texas at San Antonio. From 2015-2020 he was the Executive Director of the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University.