Ethan graduated from Yale University with MM and MMA degrees in Organ Performance in May 2022, studying organ with Jon Laukvik, Craig Cramer, and Martin Jean, as well as improvisation with Jeffrey Brillhart. In 2019, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a BM degree in Composition and Organ Performance, studying with Daniel Temkin, Sean Friar, Donald Crockett, Andrew Norman, Morten Lauridsen, and Cherry Rhodes. Previously, he studied with concert organist and composer Angela Kraft Cross. He has gone on several study trips to Paris and Lyon sponsored by USC, the San Francisco Peninsula Organ Academy, and The Presser Foundation's Undergraduate Scholar Award for immersion into the French organ tradition on historic instruments including those of Notre Dame Cathedral and the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, with extensive study under internationally renowned improvisers Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin and Frédéric Blanc.
In addition to his performance activities, Ethan teaches improvisation privately and through workshops for universities as well as local chapters of the AGO, and most recently for the Church Music Institute in Dallas, TX. He is regularly commissioned to compose new choral and keyboard music. Notable recent commissions include the AGO for their 2019 Regional Convention in Orange County and Singing City Choir in collaboration with 2020-2021 Philadelphia youth poet laureate Cydney Brown. His compositions can be found at www.SheetMusicPlus.com. Ethan also enjoys recording videos for his YouTube channel as well as studying foreign languages; he currently speaks English, French, Spanish, European Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, and is currently learning German and Korean.
Ethan’s professional website will be launching soon. Please visit www.EthanHaman.com in a few months, or follow @Ethan.Haman.Music today on Facebook or Instagram to see concert, recording, and composition announcements!
Ethan Haman
Ethan Haman from Fremont, CA is passionate about musical creativity through performance, improvisation, and composition at the organ, both independently and in collaboration with ensembles.
He "handles the concert stage and the tradition of live improvisation with great poise and flare," (American Guild of Organists, San Jose chapter), and "his improvised symphonies on submitted themes have been a consistent favorite among his audiences" (Space Coast Daily).
He currently works as Staff Accompanist for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, providing organ and piano accompaniment for rehearsals and performances of the Yale Camerata, Schola Cantorum, Repertory Chorus, and Recital Chorus as well as for graduate conducting and voice lessons. He is also Staff Accompanist for the Greater New Haven Community Chorus, Director of Music for the Episcopal Church at Yale, and Organist/Associate Director of Music at Noroton Presbyterian Church in Darien, CT.
Ethan was a finalist in the American Guild of Organist's National Competition in Organ Improvisation, winning the Third Prize and Audience Prize during the 2022 National Convention in Seattle. He performs throughout the United States and internationally both as a recitalist and in collaboration with various ensembles, and his performances often feature extensive improvisations. He has performed and recorded in 23 states and 10 countries, including such notable venues as Davies Symphony Hall and the Cathedral of St. Mary in San Francisco, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Trinity Church and Harvard University's Adolphus Busch Hall in Boston, Notre Dame d'Auteuil in Paris, and the Grote Kerk of St. Bavo in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
