Ephraim Champion

Ephraim Champion is an active composer (stage & screen) and musician based in Chicago, Illinois. His music has been praised as “strongly individual,” “compelling,” and “distinctive” by the Chicago Classical Review.

In 2021, Gaudete Brass premiered Ephraim’s work, Scenes from South Shore, Chicago, at the Ear Taxi Music Festival in Chicago. The following year, Ephraim showcased his talents with Humanhood, premiered by Constellation Men’s Ensemble for their fifth annual NOVA concert series. In 2023, Ephraim’s promising career was solidified when he was selected as the second annual Hearing in Color/La Caccina Young Composer-in-Residence. During this residency, he wrote All Things Sublime and Colossal for the virtuosic women’s acapella ensemble, La Caccina, and A Stone of Hope (Martin’s Song) for the Music Institute of Chicago’s annual MLK Celebration Concert, featuring the talents of multi-Grammy nominated pianist, Marta Aznavoorian. The same year, he joined Slightly American Productions as their resident film composer, scoring the short films Girls in the Back of the Club and Rejection is God’s Protection.

Ephraim’s music made its international debut with the world premiere of his Suite for the F Horn & Tenor Saxophone at the 2023 World Saxophone Congress in Spain. Shortly after, The Yamaha Tuba Duo (featuring Tuba extraordinaire, Sérgio Carolino) commissioned Ephraim to write his next work, The Spectacle, which premiered in Fukuoka, Japan in March of 2024. In August, Ephraim’s piece, Vicariously Through You, was recorded as part of the upcoming Project Encore, Vol. 2 album, commissioned by world-renowned classical saxophonist, Timothy McAllister.

Outside of music, Ephraim enjoys writing, watching movies/TV, and spending time with his amazing wife, Kianti, and their two adorable Yorkies, Heath & Ginger.