SARAH EVANS

SARAH EVANS is a contemporary classical composer who utilizes collaboration to create a more accessible environment for marginalized peoples. After beginning classical piano training at a young age. she eventually grew tired of performing other people's works and began writing her own.

Sarah's music ranges from neoclassical to more exploratory pieces involving microtonality and extended technique for solo instruments. While she has found success in writing concert music, she believes her writing style and aspirations lend themselves best to films or performance art spaces. Her dream career is to be a film composer, and her favorite film scores at the moment are Bobby Krlic’s score for Midsommar (dir. Ari Aster) and Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto’s score for The Revenant (dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu).

A student at the University of Denver, Sarah is currently working towards a Bachelor of Music in Composition and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, as well as a minor in Gender and Women's Studies. After she completes her undergraduate degrees, she hopes to score films or pursue a career in music therapy. As of 2021, she has scored one film, Persephone Country (2020, dir. Shelly Patton).

A champion of social justice, Sarah fuels her emotions around topics such as Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ rights into her works. In the future, she hopes to create musical programs that exclusively showcase LGBTQ performers and performers of color. Sarah also believes in creating a more accessible environment for new music and hopes to create programs that include people from all walks of life whether they come from a musical background or not.

Sarah's music has been commissioned by Heike Matthiesen and The Baylor School and has been performed by various performers at the Lamont School of Music in Denver, Colorado. She attended the Screen Music Program in Milan, Italy in summer 2021.

When not composing, Sarah watches films and television, cuddles with her dog Merrick, and drinks root beer. Sarah can play piano, guitar, violin, steel drums, and electric bass.