Evan Mack
Biography
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Evan Mack, is the Selection Winner of the National Association of Composers, San Francisco for Fall 2009 and the UCM New Music Festival for his "Dream of Freedom," and the Selection Winner of the 2010 SCI Region IV Conference for American Groove. In 2010, Mack's opera, Angel of the Amazon will be performed in New York City and San Francisco and is slated for full development and production by Encompass New Opera Theatre. As an acclaimed pianist, Mack received his DMA from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music and became a champion of American music. He has performed all over the United States, Barcelona, Spain, and South Africa, sharing with large audiences the exciting and accessible music of our day. His next tour, called "Hemispheres" will feature many American works, as well as music from six continents! In 2001 Evan won the Vanderbilt University Concerto Competition, and later performed Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto with the Vanderbilt Symphonic Orchestra. He was also a guest artist of the Blair Woodwind Ensemble for its premiere of a composition by Dana Wilson. Evan has studied with Michael Chertock of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and participated in master classes by George Crumb, Seymour Lipkin, Emanuel Ax, Louis de Moura Castro, Juraj Margulis, Diane Andersen, and James Tocco. Evan has performed with much acclaim in Las Vegas, Cincinnati, Charleston, Nashville, Bonita Springs, and throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Most recently, Evan has performed in the Kentucky Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony Chamber Players, The West Virginia Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; including a performance in Carnegie Hall.
As a composer, he produced five full musicals (three of them for children's theater), as well as numerous popular songs, and numerous classical works. He studied under Dr. Michael Slayton and Dr. Stan Link. Most Recently, his “Dream of Freedom”, for choir, 2 soloists, and piano was performed at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The work is slated to for publication in the spring. His work for Two Pianos, “American Groove” will be performed by the “Westhuizen Duo” all across the United States and South Africa. The Marshall University Chorus, of sixty-plus students will performed "Dream of Freedom" with Mack guest conducting their spring concert. Mack will perform live at the Chicago Cultural Center and Chicago Public Radio for the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in June 2010. "Three Reflections of Sister Dorothy, for Mezzo and Orchestra" will be performed by the Blue Ash/Montgomery Symphony in September of this year.
Evan has received:
B.M. in Piano from Vanderbilt University
M.M. in Piano from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music.
D.M.A. in Piano from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music.