Education
Evans graduated with a degree in Music from the University of Ulster majoring in composition under Dr David Morris. He holds a doctorate in electroacoustic music composition from City University, London. Evans studied composition with Prof. Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama; film scoring under Don Ray (ex-chief music supervisor CBS/MTM), and later under the English composer Dr Wilfred Josephs at Dartington International Summer School. He studied orchestral conducting under Lawrence Leonard, at Morley College (1994-5).
In 1991, François Evans was awarded the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust Scholarship and received an invitation to IRCAM in Paris to explore for a year in electronic and computer composition under the 'spectral music' composer Tristan Murail. At IRCAM he conducted the Ensemble Intercontemporain in the première of Conquête de l'espace, an electroacoustic piece based on one of the tapestries of Jean Lurçat.
Studying classical piano from age six, François Evans sang treble at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, recording with André Previn, Sir Colin Davis, Michel Plasson and Yevgeny Svetlanov. François also sang for Michel Legrand in Barbara Streisand's film Yentle (1983) and for Vangelis Papathanassiou in Ridley Scott's film 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992).
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