Seattle Composer Nat Evans writes concert music for various mixed chamber ensembles, distinctive electro-acoustic music, and site-specific music events that fuse nature, community and subjectivity of experience. His music is regularly performed across the United States and has also been performed in Europe, South America, Australia and China. Evans has received numerous commissions including the Seattle Percussion Collective, the Harrison Center for the Arts, ODEONQUARTET, Seattle Pacific University Men's Choir and Percussion Ensemble, Beta Test Ensemble, The Northwest School Chamber Orchestra, among others. His music has been featured on a number of radio stations in the United States, as well as BBC3, and in the 2011 Music Issue of The Believer. He studied music at Butler University with Michael Schelle and Frank Felice.
Evans has created installations at the Harrison Center for the Arts, and helped organize (and performed in) the Sonic Waves Experimental Music Festival in Melbourne, Australia. His music has also been featured in the Long Beach SoundWalk sound art festival, Brooklyn’s Nuit Blanche event Bring To Light, as well as the Make Music Winter festival as part of Tom Peyton’s Bell by Bell event. A frequent collaborator, Evans has worked with fashion designers in Berlin, artists, film makers, and composers and musicians such as Ross Simonini. He and Simonini have written scores for film as well as modern dance, including choreographer Catherine Cabeen.
In September 2010 a new site-specific electro-acoustic work that combines nature, community and music - Sunrise, September 18th, 2010- was presented in Seattle as well as in Louisville. Participants downloaded the score to a portable listening device, then joined groups in their respective geographic locales to observe sunrise together as they listened to the music. This was the first in a series of site and time specific works presented in this manner. In 2011 Evans presented his Sunset + Music tour across the United States using the same method as sunrise event, with this one taking place at Sunset. The events were covered extensively in the press, and Evans was invited to give lectures on the topic, as well as present it at New York’s Bring To Light Festival. Currently he is working on the third in this series entitled Blue Hour as a commission for the Private Works series at The Hartt School.
Evans has created installations at the Harrison Center for the Arts, and helped organize (and performed in) the Sonic Waves Experimental Music Festival in Melbourne, Australia. His music has also been featured in the Long Beach SoundWalk sound art festival, Brooklyn’s Nuit Blanche event Bring To Light, as well as the Make Music Winter festival as part of Tom Peyton’s Bell by Bell event. A frequent collaborator, Evans has worked with fashion designers in Berlin, artists, film makers, and composers and musicians such as Ross Simonini. He and Simonini have written scores for film as well as modern dance, including choreographer Catherine Cabeen.
In September 2010 a new site-specific electro-acoustic work that combines nature, community and music - Sunrise, September 18th, 2010- was presented in Seattle as well as in Louisville. Participants downloaded the score to a portable listening device, then joined groups in their respective geographic locales to observe sunrise together as they listened to the music. This was the first in a series of site and time specific works presented in this manner. In 2011 Evans presented his Sunset + Music tour across the United States using the same method as sunrise event, with this one taking place at Sunset. The events were covered extensively in the press, and Evans was invited to give lectures on the topic, as well as present it at New York’s Bring To Light Festival. Currently he is working on the third in this series entitled Blue Hour as a commission for the Private Works series at The Hartt School.