Clark Evans has been a part of many varied ensembles as a cellist and as a pianist, competed as a soloist on both instruments, and has taught many students. He has received awards and has had opportunities to perform as a soloist with various community and professional orchestras including the Brigham Young University Philharmonic, the Utah Philharmonic, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and the Civic Orchestra of Tucson. Additionally, he was a finalist in the 2018 Osaka International Music Competition.

 

Evans was cellist for the award-winning Timpanogos Piano Trio, the recipient of national first prize at the 2016 MTNA Competition in the Chamber Strings division, coached by Scott Holden and Alex Woods. He is a past member of the Civic Orchestra of Tucson, the Quartet Chetyre, and the Brigham Young University Philharmonic.

 

Past students of his studio have participated in regional and state-wide festivals. They consistently receive superior ratings and place highly in competitions. Evans’ teaching includes strong emphasis on musicality in all levels of performance, and he seeks to inspire the artistic voices of young musicians.

 

A prolific composer, he has had the privilege of seeing many of his works performed throughout the United States and Europe. His music has been commissioned by individuals and by professional and student ensembles, and has been performed in local venues, on tours, and programed in regular concert seasons. He has received the awards of finalist (2010) and honorable mention (2011) in the annual ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Competition; in 2017 he was a finalist in the collegiate division of the same competition. Additionally, in July of 2018 he was involved as an assistant to the Administrator for the prestigious annual Barlow Commission. In 2019 he was awarded 1st prize in the Vera Hinckley Mayhew Composition Contest.

 

In past years, he has participated in festivals as an orchestra member of the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute (2012) and also as a chamber musician and composer as part of the International Music Festival of the Adriatic (2016) and the Vienna Summer Music Institute (2018). In 2017, he participated in the Brevard Music Center festival where he sat principal cellist, was a semi-finalist in the Jan and Beattie Concerto Competition and had the opportunity to work with visiting artist Johannes Moser. He also participated in the 2017 Tucson Cello Congress held at University of Arizona and won first place in their collegiate level solo competition.

 

Evans is a graduate student at the San Francisco Conservatory of music, where he is the recipient of the Elinor Armer Scholarship in Composition. His past education includes a B.M. in Music Performance, with an emphasis in strings, from Brigham Young University (2019).