Ethan Gurwitz

Ethan Gurwitz (b. 2000) is a composer and musician from San Antonio, Texas, currently pursuing a master’s degree in composition at the UT Butler School of Music.

Ethan’s music has been performed by collegiate, professional, and community ensembles from Texas to Scotland, and he has accepted commissions from the Metropolitan Winds, Horns United, the SMU Meadows Wind Ensemble, and esteemed Bass Trombonist Ron Wilkins, among others. He was selected for the 2021 ITF Composers Workshop, won the 2021 Edwin W. Gaston, Jr. Scholarship, and was a finalist for the 2021 and 2022 ASCAP Morton Gould Composition Contests. 

He was recently named a 2023 Nadia Boulanger Fellow to the European American Musical Alliance Institute in Paris, France. He has also collaborated with Sandbox Percussion, the 2023 EAMA Resident String Quartet, Soprano Bethany Jelinek, librettist Emma Bolton, and Horn Choirs of the University of Texas and Southern Methodist University, among others. His instructors include Drs. Omar Thomas, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Donald Grantham, Lane Harder, Xi Wang, and Robert J. Frank. 

In 2022, he received two degrees in Music Composition (BM) and Applied Mathematics (BS) at SMU, graduating Summa Cum Laude and with recognition as Standard Bearer for both the Meadows School of the Arts and Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. As a student at UT Butler and formerly SMU, he has participated in the Wind Ensembles, Orchestras, Operas, and French Horn Studios – and he has studied horn with Mr. Gregory Hustis, Alex Kienle, and Patrick Hughes.