Education
François Evans studied classical piano from age 6. As a boy he sang treble at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, recording with André Previn, Sir Colin Davis, Michel Plasson and Yevgeny Svetlanov. He 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).
He was involved with a brief acting stint at the former ATV Studios in Elstree, appearing in the The Ballad of Salomon Pavey (directed by Richard Bramall, 1977) and Come Back Lucy (directed by Paul Harrison, 1978).
François Evans moved into film scoring, graduating with a degree in Music from the University of Ulster ('first' in composition with studies in piano and percussion). He gained a Ph.D. in Music Composition from City University, London including tutorials at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
In 1985 he studied film scoring under Don Ray (ex-chief music supervisor CBS/MTM, Hollywood), and later under Wilfred Josephs at the Dartington International Summer School. Evans worked at orchestral conducting under Lawrence Leonard, at Morley College (1994-5). He cut his teeth on shorts for the London International Film School, the National Film & Television School and La Fémis (École Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son) in Paris.
In 1991, François Evans was awarded the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust Scholarship and received an invitation to IRCAM, the computer music research centre in Paris. There he studied spectral music compositon for a year under the tutelage of Tristan Murail and conducted Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain there, in the première of his electroacoustic piece Conquête de l'espace. He is a member of BAFTA, the Royal Society of Musicians and the Music Producer's Guild. François Evans is currently one of the few composers to use spectral techniques in film music composition.
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