Èbùn is an avid, award-winning 19-year-old composer (for concert and film music), conductor, producer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who thrives off the adrenaline-inducing surge of artistic exploration. She is currently a rising sophomore at Harvard (studying Mathematics and Statistics) while also attending Berklee College of Music for the Joint-Studies program (studying Film Scoring and music production). In 2021, she was commissioned to write a solo violin piece, Reflections, for GRAMMY-award winning violinist, Johnny Gandelsman. Her piece was performed at Carnegie Music Hall and The Wallis. The New York Times described Reflections as “somber yet mysterious,” and The San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook: “built on steadily rising and falling melodic lines against intriguingly pungent harmonies.” The full album, This is America: An Anthology 2020 - 2021, reached No. 2 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart. The album was also featured in an NPR article entitled, “Favorite Music of July,” alongside albums by Beyoncé and Maggie Rogers.

Her rise in music began in 2019, when selected as a fellow for Luna Composition Lab, a mentorship program for young female composers, founded by GRAMMY-nominated composer, Missy Mazzoli, and Pulitzer-Prize winner, Ellen Reid. Her final piece, The Dimensions, was premiered by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In Luna Lab, she was mentored by Reena Esmail and participated in masterclasses with esteemed composers, such as Caroline Shaw, Jeff Beal, Jeanine Tesori, and Valerie Coleman.

In 2021, Èbùn was featured on NPR’s From the Top, where she was interviewed by Kevin Olusola from the 3-time GRAMMY-Award winning group, Pentatonix, and her piece, The Dimensions, was recorded and performed (by Peter Dugan, Charles Yang, and Doori Na). Additionally, she had her own 60-second video interview featured on NPR’s official Instagram account that received almost a quarter of a million views.

Èbùn has also received commissions from Composers Now and the Cincinnati May Festival. In 2021, she won the Composers Now First Commission Award in which New Thread Quartet premiered her new work for saxophone trio and electronics, Interim, under mentorship from Erin Rogers and Pulitzer-Prize winner Tania León.

Subsequent performances include BIT20 Ensemble’s performance of The Dimensions in Norway at the Bergen International Festival, the largest of its kind in the Nordic countries, and the premiere of Nova by Symphoria in 2021. In 2023, her symphonic work, Five (from Interval), will be premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Some recent performances include her performance of Five (from Interval) in the concert titled, “Professor Treblemaker’s History of Music,” by the Little Orchestra Society as part of the LOS Kids Series, educating children on historical composers and the progression of classical music, conducted by multi GRAMMY-Award winning conductor, David Alan Miller. Subsequently, the same piece was performed by The Apollo Ensemble of Boston, conducted by Elias Miller. Both occurred in fall of 2023.

Èbùn’s personal projects have also spurred her artistic growth. In 2020, she produced and directed a virtual concert, garnering 1.8K+ views on YouTube, that musically narrated the unfortunate events of 2020 (Australian fires, African Locusts, COVID-19 originating from China, and American Hurricanes), featuring Johnny Gandelsman and other local musicians. The event had been featured on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and was endorsed by Music by Black Composers. Additionally, she recently created her own app from scratch, entitled NoteBox App, that aids emerging composers in sharing their music, receiving recordings, asking for questions, and collaborating with other musicians.

Previous summer pursuits include a full merit-based scholarship to Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where her string trio, Coup D’Œil, and wind quintet, Contrition, was premiered by its faculty and an ensemble under direction of GRAMMY-nominated composer Valerie Coleman (respectively). Furthermore, she attended the Eastman Summer Classical Studies Program in 2020 and 2021 for composition and conducting (respectively) with a merit-based scholarship.

As an instrumentalist, Èbùn is currently a violinist and former board member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Harvard’s premier orchestra and the oldest symphonic orchestra in the United States, and was the assistant concertmistress of the Symphoria Young Artists Orchestra (also conducted in some of the ensemble’s performances and rehearsals), has attended the New York Conference All-State and NAfME All-Eastern Orchestra (assisted in conducting some parts of the ensemble’s rehearsals). While violin and piano are her primary instruments, she also can play the viola, guitar, drums, used to play jazz saxophone, and has taken an amateur jab at cello and flute, while still intending to learn more. This upcoming year, she plans on releasing some songs and other produced works, honing both songwriting and production skills.

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