Evan Evans is a Film Composer of over 80 feature films, a specialist on the art & craft of film music, and son of legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans. And as an entrepreneur he founded The Composer Collective (a media scoring firm with over 3000 global composers), Film Scoring Academy (an online scoring university with over 5000 students), and created CuePop™ the world's first fully automated online music library.
Evan has worked on numerous star-powered films, supporting the greats including the legendary David Carradine in his final appearance, as well as Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, 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 Reinhold, Steven Bauer, Louis Mandylor, Karen Black, Mark Rolston, John Saxon, and Robert Culp.
Films he has scored are elevated artistically and continually make rounds at some of the world's most respected 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 at age 12 began college study of music composition theory at CSULB, the same school Steven Spielberg graduated from. He continued to study at the Nadia Boulanger Institute in Paris, where he shared pedagogy with Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Elliot Goldenthal. At 17 he went to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He apprenticed with groundbreaking Argentinian film composer Lalo Schifrin ("Mission Impossible") for over a year, veteran TV composer Don Ray ("Twilight Zone"), top-notch orchestrator Steven Scott Smalley ("Batman"), leading harmony specialist and arranger Clare Fischer (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.