Background

Francois Evans's electronic and acoustic film music includes the scores to Edgar (Shaun of the Dead /Hot Fuzz) Wright's first feature A Fistful of Fingers; The 3 Kings (featuring Vanessa Redgrave); Sudden Fury directed by Darren Ward and Martyr, starring Trey (Bend it Like Beckham) Farley.

Francois Evans's feature film music is quirky, lavish, moving, with memorable melodies, visceral rhythms and frisson harmonies, combining vintage and digital electronics with real orchestral instruments in startling and original ways.

He has written music for Simon (Mutant Chronicals) Hunter and co-arranged the orchestral music for the wedding of David & Victoria Beckham. In 2008 he conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra for the Barry Gray Centenary Benefit Concert at the Royal Festival Hall, before an audience of over 1600.

A member of BAFTA, the Music Producers' Guild and the prestigeous Royal Society of Musicians, François Evans's most recent score is the soundtrack for the Italian feature film Il Fungo Sirena directed by Stefan Archetti.

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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).