ETHAN CYPRESS

ETHAN CYPRESS is a freelance instrumentalist, composer & arranger living in Colorado Springs, CO. He is an active duty member of the Air Force Academy Band. Cypress has performed, arranged & composed music for & alongside a number of prominent jazz & gospel artists including Billy Harper, Ryan Keberle & Shayna Steele. He was also a featured bandleader and soloist at the 2019 Rochester International Jazz Festival.

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AS A TROMBONIST and multi-instrumentalist, Cypress has performed and recorded with numerous groups across several genres. He has also been a finalist for a handful of military band positions in California, Colorado and Washington D.C. Cypress held a section position as a Violist in The Catskill Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2011. While most of his work is as a tenor and bass trombonist, he also work as a violinist and violist with chamber groups that play at wedding ceremonies, and I work as a jazz pianist as well. Cypress is also well versed in country music as he also works as a banjo player, bassist and mandolin player.

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AS A COMPOSER, Cypress been a semi-finalist and finalist for the American Prize in Chamber Music Composition and in Wind Band Composition, as well as a finalist for both the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards and a finalist for the Morton Gould Young Classical Composer Awards. In 2017, The Eos Sextet performed his piece "Fickle Tone Zones" at both the Fischoff and M-Prize competitions. In 2018, the Lotus Trio performed his piece "Velox Nocturnus" at the M-Prize.

AS AN ARRANGER & COPYIST, Cypress has served and continue to serve numerous organizations across the United States. He worked for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra from 2013-2015 arranging string quartets for wedding ceremonies. In that same period of time, Cypress also interned with members of the Mambo Legends Orchestra in New York City as a copyist. Since 2017, he has held the post of on call copyist, orchestrater and arranger for the Glimmerglass Opera Festival in Cooperstown, NY.

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AS AN EDUCATOR, Cypress held the position of Adjunct Professor of Music Technology and Academic Intern at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY for the 2016/2017 academic year. He was in charge of recording, mixing and cataloguing concerts. Cypress also trained work study students to run lights and live sound for events, and I taught an elective course in music technology and audio recording. While he left this position in the Spring of 2017 to pursue a masters degree, he has remained as a consultant for the music department and independent contractor. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Eastman School of Music, Cypress runs big band rehearsals, small group rehearsals, teach theory classes and tutor undergraduate students in a variety of different subject areas. 

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