Ethan Frederick Greene was born on October 10, 1982, in an Emergency Room in Livingston, New Jersey. He grew up in South Orange, New Jersey with his parents, Rebecca and Peter, and older brother, Abraham. At the age of seven, he first experienced the thrill of creating music when he accompanied Abraham on clarinet in an arrangement of Jimi Hendix’s “Purple Haze”. A few years later, Ethan began studying trumpet with the late Calvin Hughes at the Newark Community School of the Arts. There he made his first foray into the composition process, writing simple blues and jazz tunes. Around the same time, he taught himself guitar and started a rock and roll band called Count Scoopula.
From 2000-2004, Ethan attended Amherst College, where he completed the pre-med program and studied music composition with Eric Sawyer. After graduating, he moved to Austin and worked as a chemistry lab technician at the University of Texas. In Austin, Ethan continued composing and performing, most recently and successfully as a member of the rock/pop/chamber/electronica group Mediums.
Ethan currently resides in Houston, TX, where he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. His principal teachers include Arthur Gottschalk, Karim Al-Zand and Kurt Stallmann.