Peter Evans

Location:
ASTORIA, New York, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Jazz
Label:
psi, Firehouse12, HotCup, NEMU, Creative Sources
Type:
Indie
Peter Evans has been a member of the New York musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating Oberlin Conservatory with a degree in classical trumpet. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition.
As a performer, Evans has been working to broaden the expressive range of his chosen instrument and enjoys playing with steady configurations of players and composers. Current bands include the Peter Evans Quartet and Quintet, Moppa Elliott's terrorist bebop band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, the hyperactive improvisation duo Sparks (with Tom Blancarte), duo with trumpeter Nate Wooley, as well as a sustained interest in solo performance. Other collaborators have included: Mary Halvorson, Steve Schick, Steve Beresford, Okkyung Lee, Clayton Thomas, Jim Black, Evan Parker, Tyshawn Sorey, John Zorn, Tony Buck, Mark Gould, Weasel Walter, Tobias Delius, Joel Ryan, and Christian Marclay.
In New York, Peter also performs contemporary notated music and is a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). This group focus premieres many new works from young composers as well as 20th century classics by composers such as Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varese. Peter is also an experienced teacher, having given workshops on music, trumpet, and improvisation at institutions including the University of California in San Diego, the Birmingham Conservatoire, The Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, Northwestern University and the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In June 2008 Peter traveled to the Philippines with the Cultures in Harmony project, teaching, collaborating and performing with tribal musicians in Mindanao. Recent travels have brought Peter to venues and festivals in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the UK, and Southeast Asia. These include appearances at the Moers Festival, the Ulrichsberg Kaleidophon Festival, The Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, Jazz a Mulhouse, Warsaw Jazz Days, and the Vancouver Jazz Festival.
Recordings the self-titled first album of the Peter Evans Quartet (on firehouse12), the self-titled "Sparks" on Creative Sources, "Forty-Fort" the fourth album by MOPDTK, on HotCup Records. Evans has also released two collections of solo trumpet music on Evan Parker's psi label, as well as a quartet album for Clean Feed, "Live in Lisbon", recorded at the Jazz em Agosto Festival in 2009.
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