Andrew Evans
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Andrew Evans (Trumpet), BMus Tas
Andrew Evans is the Chair of the Brass Studies Unit and Lecturer in Trumpet at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has performed with top orchestras worldwide including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and is also a sought-after studio musician for film and television soundtracks and commercial recordings.
In 2007 Evans, together with Sydney Brass, recorded brass compositions by Australian composer David Stanhope for the Australian classical label Tall Poppies. In 2007, Evans was awarded a RHISS writing fellowship and a New Frontiers Grant from The University of Sydney to write Music, Mutiny, Shipwreck and Murder: The fate of the three trumpeters aboard the 17th-century Dutch East Indiaman “Batavia”(1629).
Evans leads and conducts the Conservatorium Brass Ensemble in concerts and overseas and is a leader of the Sydney Brass Consort. He has also performed on period instruments with a number of ensembles including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Pinchgut Opera, and Australian Baroque Brass. Throughout his career Evans has performed a wide variety of musical styles with many different groups including the Elision Ensemble, Ensemble Modern (Germany), Australis Ensemble (Austria), Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, West Australian, Tasmanian, Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. He played trumpet for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra for a decade.
In 1988 he was awarded a DAAD Scholarship to at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin with Professer Konradin Groth. During this time he was engaged to play with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors Herbert von Karajan and Ricardo Muti at the Salzburg Festival. He also holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Tasmania.