Ethan Blaze Monberg

Ethan Monberg (b. 2010 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a composer, vocalist, and pianist, who writes for solo instrument, chamber ensemble, and for voice. His compositions have received both state and divisional awards from MTNA – Alfred Music, as well as awards from the Golden Key International Music Festival, Helping with Arts Composition Competition, the Jamie Bell Recording Project, Berlioz International Music, Bach International Music, Max Bruch International Music, and many others. He will premiere his piece “Summer Drive” this July at Ehrbar Hall in Vienna and at Bӧsendorfer Hall at Mozarthaus in Salzburg. In 2024, he has participated in Fear No Music’s Young Composers Program and Allentown Symphony Orchestra’s New Chamber Music Series, and he was awarded a Composer Fellowship at Suncoast. His music has been called “rhapsodic”, “very ambitious” and with an “excellent sense of flow” (MTNA). His music has been performed by Hypercube, and his opera The Mime was performed by the Philadelphia Vocal Conservatory. Ethan is a member and soloist of the Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale. He has appeared in numerous operas with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Opera Philadelphia, including starring as Amahl in Opera Philadelphia’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. He is a student of Phillip Roberts of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Susan Nowicki of the Curtis Institute, and Michael Ashby, director emeritus of the Philadelphia Vocal Conservatory.