henry ives
biography
Henry Ives is a San Francisco-based composer whose work has been recognized in both the academic sphere and the pageantry arts. In 2019, he won the CSU Lower Division Composition Contest for his flute solo turbulence, and in 2020 he won the Southern California Percussion Alliance Composition Scholarship Competition for his electroacoustic chamber composition what was. In 2022, his piece the optimist for flute and piano was selected as the winner in the professional flute category of the “What IF…” call for scores.
Ives is a composer in the broadest sense of the term and often combines his musical work with his passion for technology and the visual arts, creating multimedia pieces that resist categorization.
Henry studied under Dr. James David and Dr. Eric Hollenbeck at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he received undergraduate degrees in Music Composition and Computer Science. He studied under Celia Hollander and Clay Chaplin at California Institute of the Arts, where he completed half of an MFA in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices.
When he’s not flouting capitalization in the titles of his works, he can be found writing unit tests, teaching spock rolls, and blindly following the strange convention of writing his own composer bio in the third person.
