Evan

Experience

Music Directing

  • St Hilary’s Anglican Church (Music director / minister, 2014-2020)
  • The Last Five Years (Tall Trees Productions, 2013)
  • Parade (Musical Associate to Jason Robert Brown, Los Angeles, USA, 2009)
  • Rent (Assistant musical director, Whitehorse Musical Theatre, 2010)
  • Rent (Assistant musical director, Stella Entertainment, 2006)
  • Parade (Assistant musical director, Monash University, 2005)
  • For A Change benefit concerts (Momentum Productions, 2005)
  • French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts (2004)
  • EDGE Church (Music director, 1999-2009)

Accompaniment

  • Jason Robert Brown, Georgia Stitt, John Bucchino masterclasses (Your Management International, 2011)
  • Australian Cabaret Showcase Competition (Your Management International, 2011)
  • ’13’ (assistant & rehearsal accompanist to Jason Robert Brown, New York, USA, 2004)

Music Performance

  • The Patties (cover band)
  • Dallas Cosmas and Astrolab (originals band)
  • Qwela (stage band)
  • wedding bands
  • church bands
  • audition and rehearsal pianist

Music Theatre Performance (onstage)

  • Children of Eden (One Community Church, 2008)
  • Les Miserables (Whitehorse Musical Theatre, 2004)
  • West Side Story (SLAMS, 2003)
  • Sweeney Todd (CLK, 2003)
  • Godspell (DCC, 1998)

Music Theatre Performance (offstage)

  • The Last Five Years (Tall Trees Productions, 2013)
  • Songs For A New World (Octave Theatre, 2007)
  • Parade (Monash University, 2005)
  • Man of La Mancha (French Woods, 2004)
  • Rent (Whitehorse Musical Theatre, 2010, Stella Entertainment, 2006)

Producing

  • The Last Five Years (Tall Trees Productions, 2013)
  • Live in the Saddle musical evenings (2011-2013)
  • For A Change benefit concerts (Momentum Productions, 2005)

Composition

  • Playgro toy jingles
  • 42×42 OneDreamRush short film festival
    showcased at Cannes Film Festival, Beijing Independent Film Forum

Arranging / Transcribing

  • Rent (Stella Entertainment, 2006)
  • Come Celebrate Christmas carols
  • private clients

Teaching

  • St Doms Primary School
  • Emerson School
  • private tuition
  • keyboard and guitar workshops

Training

  • National Theatre (St Kilda)
    Music Theatre – 1 year course
    Completed in 1999

Skills

Advanced

  • piano / keyboard
  • guitar
  • vocals
  • sight-reading
  • chords
  • tab
  • play by ear
  • transposition
  • transcription
  • arranging
  • composition
  • relative pitch

 

Intermediate

  • Ableton, Sibelius, Finale, Garageband, Air Ignite
  • bass
  • drums / percussion
  • harmonica
  • trumpet
  • violin
  • conducting
  • MIDI programming
  • VST programming