Ethan Squires - Steinway Debut Concert

Join us for this unforgettable debut concert for the Ethan Squires Memorial Steinway!

"Ethan Squires was a busy mechanical engineering major and computer science minor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, holding down a campus job and routinely taking over eighteen credits a semester. He was also a gifted pianist and trombone player who performed in multiple ensembles, composed and arranged music and played for guest artists. Ethan was a familiar fixture in Doudna Hall.

“Ethan was always smiling, always saying hello in the hallway with so much warmth,” said Ethan’s piano instructor, Dr. Kaju Lee.

In the spring of 2024, while completing his co-op with Kohler Power Systems in Sheboygan and preparing the Khachaturian Piano Concerto for the fall concerto competition on campus, Ethan died suddenly of complications from type 1 diabetes.

In the weeks and months following the tragic loss, Ethan’s impact on Platteville’s music program—and the program’s impact on his life—became clear. His parents, Jeff and Whitney Squires, established a fund to support causes important to Ethan and approached the music program for gift ideas that would benefit UW-Platteville student musicians like their son.

“We explained that we wanted to do something to remember Ethan, but something meaningful to the music program—a way to honor Ethan and the music program,” said Jeff Squires. “Dr. Lee proposed the idea of a Steinway Model D concert grand piano. Every music program needs two, and UW-Platteville only has one. We thought, ‘What better way to honor Ethan and to honor the music program than to help secure this world-class piano?’”" - The Ethan Effect

This event is free.