Ephraim Champion is an active composer based in Chicago, Illinois. His music has been praised as “strongly individual,” “compelling,” and “distinctive” by the Chicago Classical Review. While deeply rooted in the concert world, Ephraim has rapidly expanded into narrative scoring, currently serving as the Resident Film Composer for Slightly American Productions.

Ephraim Champion is an active composer based in Chicago, Illinois. His music has been praised as “strongly individual,” “compelling,” and “distinctive” by the Chicago Classical Review. While deeply rooted in the concert world, Ephraim has rapidly expanded into narrative scoring, currently serving as the Resident Film Composer for Slightly American Productions.

His recent work for the screen spans from the upcoming feature documentary Greater Than Ourselves (Southwest Film Productions) to independent narrative shorts including Rejection is God’s Protection and Canon Event. Additionally, Ephraim’s experience extends to major studio productions, having performed as a session musician for the score of the Focus Features comedy Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022).

In the concert hall, Ephraim’s promising career was solidified in 2023 when he was selected as the second annual Hearing in Color/La Caccina Young Composer-in-Residence. During this residency, he wrote All Things Sublime and Colossal for the virtuosic women’s acapella ensemble, La Caccina, and A Stone of Hope (Martin’s Song) for the Music Institute of Chicago’s annual MLK Celebration Concert, featuring the talents of multi-Grammy nominated pianist, Marta Aznavoorian.

His music made its international debut with the world premiere of his Suite for the F Horn & Tenor Saxophone at the 2023 World Saxophone Congress in Spain. Shortly after, The Yamaha Tuba Duo (featuring Tuba extraordinaire, Sérgio Carolino) commissioned Ephraim to write his next work, The Spectacle, which premiered in Fukuoka, Japan in March of 2024. Prior to this, in 2021, Gaudete Brass premiered his work, Scenes from South Shore, Chicago, at the Ear Taxi Music Festival, and the Constellation Men’s Ensemble premiered Humanhood for their fifth annual NOVA concert series.

Most recently, in August, Ephraim’s piece, Vicariously Through You, was recorded as part of the Project Encores, Vol. 2 album, commissioned by world-renowned and Grammy-winning classical saxophonist, Timothy McAllister. April 2025 marked the debut of Ephraim's significant first foray into larger ensemble writing with the Chicago Composers Orchestra's premiere of Sonder & Ozurie, a Symphonic Sketch for Chamber Orchestra.

Outside of music, Ephraim enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, Kianti, and their two adorable Yorkies, Heath and Ginger.