henry ives
biography
Henry Ives (b. 1998) is a Los Angeles-based composer. He 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.
His 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. Most recently, his piece the optimist for flute and piano was selected as the winner in the professional flute category of the 2022 “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.
When he’s not flouting capitalization in the titles of his works, he can be found writing unit tests, playing spock rolls, and blindly following the strange convention of writing his own composer bio in the third person.
He is currently pursuing an MFA in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices at California Institute of the Arts.
