Ephraim Champion is an active composer (screen & stage) and musician based in Chicago, Illinois. His music has been praised as “strongly individual,” “compelling,” and “distinctive” by the Chicago Classical Review. In Ephraim's film scores, his central focus is to figure out what a film "sounds like" . Using his extensive orchestral background/education fused with modern, electronic sounds, Ephraim creates sonic worlds that compliment the story and leave an impact—worlds that are epic, intimate, and most of all, emotional. His notable highlights include joining Slightly American Productions as their resident film composer in 2023, scoring Girls in the Back of the Club (multiple short-film festival awards) and Rejection is God's Protection. Ephraim's horn playing can be heard on Leo Sowerby’s “Synconata, H. 176a” with the Andy Baker Orchestra in an album released by Cedille Records entitled Leo Sowerby: The Paul White Commissions & Other Early Works and on composer Marcus Norris’ film score for the feature film Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. starring Michael K. Sterling & Regina Hall. Ephraim received his Bachelor of Music in Performance (Horn) from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and his Master’s in Orchestral Studies at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts.

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An accomplished contemporary classical composer as well, in 2021, Gaudete Brass premiered Ephraim's work, Scenes from South Shore, Chicago, at the Ear Taxi Music Festival in Chicago. The following year, Ephraim showcased his talents with Humanhood, premiered by Constellation Men’s Ensemble for their fifth annual NOVA concert series. In 2023, Ephraim’s promising career was solidified 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.

Ephraim’s 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, Sergio Carolino) commissioned Ephraim to write his next work, The Spectacle, which premiered in Fukuoka, Japan in March of 2024. In August, Ephraim’s piece, Vicariously Through You, was recorded as part of Project Encores, Vol. 2 album, commissioned by world-renowned classical saxophonist, Timothy McAllister. Outside of music, Ephraim enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife, Kianti, and their two adorable Yorkies, Heath and Ginger.