Music composer, songwriter, and pianist, Ethan Nanev started his enduring venture into the music world back in his home country of Bulgaria, where he fell in love with music and began piano and composing lessons at an early age. Being a skilled and dedicated young musician, Ethan quickly earned the status of a virtuoso and made a performing career with orchestras worldwide.
In 1999, Ethan moved to the New York City, where he was exposed to a diversity of cultures and musical styles. At only 18 years old, Ethan started to form his musical aesthetic through bringing his classical upbringing into the city’s night-life underground avant-garde scene. Ethan also became known as a DJ, keyboardist, and a dancer while composing for various pop and rock bands.
During his college years, Ethan made his Carnegie Hall debut as an instrumentalist, and went on to perform worldwide: at the Fontainebleau Music Festival, Paris Conservatory, Viana do Castelo Music Festival, Portugal’s Miranda Hall, Chateau de Fontainebleau in France, The Music Academy of the West, Steinway Hall, Yamaha Hall, and The Kosciusko Foundation in New York City. The years of travels in Europe allowed Ethan to study with some of the greatest masters in music composition, production, and orchestration. Back in America in 2007, Ethan started to make living from composing for short films and ghost-writing for pop shows in both New York City and Europe.
In 2010, Ethan decided that he needed to further master his music production and studio technology skills in Manhattan School of Music, where he was accepted as a doctoral student. Throughout the diverse course of this program, Ethan was provided with an opportunity to collaborate with Columbia University Film students and apply his unique music style into the composing and recording of original film scores. In addition, Ethan also plunged into a three-year internship in the audio post-production world, where he cultivated the skills needed for the execution of theatrical and TV mixing, sound designing, audio engineering, and sound quality mastering. Furthermore, this opportunity allowed Ethan to explore the depths of orchestration, programming, and remastering of audio in the recording studio, while still composing music for commercial release as a published composer.
In 2017, Ethan moved to Los Angeles where he was due to complete his ten years of ground-breaking doctoral research. His theory was one of the first to suggest that Biomechanical Kinesiology and Neuroplasticity play a critical role in studying piano. Ethan’s life-long fascination with the legendary Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich resulted in the first ever to be written analysis of the living legend’s performance technique in the music history, rewarding Ethan with thousands of followers and more than a million views of his tutorials on piano technique.
After a short pause from music composing and production, Ethan is now more than ready to start his endeavors in the artistic world of film music composing and audio production in Los Angeles.