ETHAN H. MARTIN (b. 1990) has performed both locally and abroad. In 2017, he performed in Costa Rica as a featured artist in the Fifth International Festival of Percussion Ensembles. His quartet, Barb City Percussion, performed a full program of music in the capital city of San José, presented an outreach concert in Limón, and led master classes for students at the Centro Nacional de la Música. The ensemble had the honor to present the world premiere of Amniorrhexis by Chicago-based composer Brian Penkrot.
Ethan’s varied musical interests collide as a performer with Projeto Arcomusical, a world music sextet reimagining the Afro-Brazilian berimbau through a repertoire of unique, powerful, original concert chamber music. As a member of Projeto Arcomusical, Ethan has performed at Harris Theater in Chicago for the inaugural Ear Taxi Festival and at National Sawdust in Brooklyn for the 2017 Percussion Marathon hosted by Ian Rosenbaum and Andy Akiho. Additionally, he has performed and/or assisted in Arcomusical presentations at educational institutions including the Juilliard School, Boston Conservatory, Princeton, UMass, Baldwin Wallace University, Bowling Green State University, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin – Madison, University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign, Illinois State University, Kansas State University, Western Washington University, and the Cornish College of the Arts.
Ethan received his Master of Music from Northern Illinois University as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and earned undergraduate degrees in Music Performance, Neurobiology, and Zoology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His primary teachers include Dr. Anthony Di Sanza, Dr. Gregory Beyer, Ben Wahlund, and Thomas Ross.
