Ethan Uslan is one of the
hottest names on the ragtime jazz scene today. The first place winner
of the
2007 World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest (Peoria, IL), Uslan has
performed on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion as well as various concerts
and
festivals nationwide. Uslan
studied classical piano as a child in South Orange,
N.J. and later majored in classical piano performance at Indiana
University.
All the while, Uslan secretly
harbored a ragtime addiction, and complimented
his classical piano studies by learning to play and improvise like Fats
Waller,
Jelly Roll Morton, and George Gershwin.
In addition to giving concerts and accompanying silent movie
screenings, Ethan
has served as adjunct visiting lecturer of music at the University of
North
Carolina-Charlotte. He has recorded three CDs The Apple Lassie Rag
and Other
Ragtime Hits, Ethan Uslan (Self-Titled)" andCarolina
Moon, as well several silent film scores on DVD. He is also
being
featured in the upcoming ragtime documentary The Entertainers.
