EVAN EVANS
Evan Evans is a Film Composer of over 80 feature films, specialist on the art & craft of film music, founder of The Composer Collective (a media scoring firm with over 3000 global composers) and Film Scoring Academy (an online scoring school with over 5000 students), creator of CuePop™ the world's first fully automated online music library, and son of legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans.
Evan has worked on numerous star-powered films, racking up credits starring Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Jonathan Schaech, Michael Madsen, C. Thomas Howell, Danny Trejo, Wil Wheaton, Rebecca De Mornay, Eric Roberts, Robert Carradine, Judy Reyes, Adrian Paul, Michael Rooker, John Ritter, Rachel Hunter, Judge Reinbold, Steven Bauer, Louis Mandylor, Karen Black, Mark Rolston, John Saxon, and Robert Culp.
He has made rounds with some of the world's most respected art film festivals, including "Miss Wonton" at the Sundance Film Festival, and the lyrical and controversial "Coyote" at the Flanders Film Festival.
Evan has studied music theory privately since age 6, and attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At the Nadia Boulanger Institute in Paris, he shared pedagogy with Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Elliot Goldenthal. He apprenticed with groundbreaking Argentinian film composer Lalo Schifrin ("Mission Impossible") for over a year, verteran TV composer Don Ray ("Twilight Zone"), top-notch orchestrator Steven Scott Smaley ("Batman"), leading harmony specialist and arranger Clare Fisher (Michael Jackson), and music editor Joseph Rand ("Titanic"). He has worked for and trained under iconic film composers Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith, Marco Beltrami, Elmer Bernstein, Jeff Rona, David Newman, and Basil Poledouris.