Ian Wiese

A “captivating mix of busy and sparse” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Ian Wiese is a multi-faceted composer based out of Quincy, MA and Associate Professor of Ear Training at Berklee College of Music. Performers including loadbang, Imani Winds, Box Not Found, Kalliope Reed Quintet, and New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble have played his music. Recently, Wiese was awarded prizes in the 2023 American Prize for Composition in Wind Ensemble, 2022 NEC Honors Ensemble Competition in both the Piano Trio and Trombone Quartet divisions, the 2021 American Prize for Chamber Music, the 2021 NEC Merz Trio Competition, Nightingale Ensemble Young Composers Commissioning Program, the 2020 Mu Phi Epsilon International Convention Call for Scores, the 2021 and 2019 Mu Phi Epsilon Original Composition Competition, the Ball State University Xenharmonic Music Alliance Call for Scores, and the Ithaca College Jack Downey Vocal Composition Prize, among others; he was also a finalist for the 2021 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and the International Trumpet Guild Call for Scores. Some of his music has been heard in unusual venues, including EPCOT Center at The Walt Disney World Resort. Radnofsky-Couper Editions and North Star Music Publishing publish his music. He studies at NEC for his DMA in Composition with composer John Heiss.