François Evans

Born in London in 1965, of French & English parents, François Evans has some 20 years' experience in feature film music composition and production. He wrote and conducted the scores to Edgar (Shaun of the Dead /Hot Fuzz) Wright's first feature film: A Fistful of Fingers; Pervirella featuring Jonathan Ross & Marc Lamarr; The 3 Kings (featuring Vanessa Redgrave); Sudden Fury directed by Darren Ward and Martyr, starring Trey (Bend it Like Beckham) Farley. He has written music for Simon (Mutant Chronicals) Hunter and co-arranged the orchestral music for the wedding of David & Victoria Beckham.

François Evans's music has been described as quirky, lavish and emotionally moving, combining vintage and digital electronics with acoustic instruments in unusual ways, with memorable melodies, visceral rhythms and frisson harmonies.

A member of BAFTA, the Music Producers' Guild, the Academy of Composers and Songwriters and the Royal Society of Musicians, François Evans is currently scoring Stefan Archetti's new feature Il Fungo Sirena (The Mermaid Mushroom). He will be conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in a benefit concert for the centenary of the birth of film and television composer Barry Gray, at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in November, 2008. Tickets available here.

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Education

Evans graduated with a degree in Music from the University of Ulster and holds a Ph.D. in electroacoustic music composition from City University, London. Evans studied composition with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music, film scoring under Don Ray (ex-chief music supervisor CBS/MTM), and later under the English composer Dr Wilfred Josephs. In 1994-5 he studied orchestral conducting under the late Lawrence Leonard, at Morley College.

In 1991, Evans was awarded the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust Scholarship and received an invitation to IRCAM in Paris to work for a year in electronic and computer composition under the spectral composer Tristan Murail. There he conducted the Ensemble Intercontemporain in the première of his electroacoustic piece Conquête de l'espace based on one of the tapestries of Jean Lurçat.

Childhood

Studying classical piano from a young age, François Evans sang treble at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and recorded with André Previn, 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).