Gregory D. Evans
New Director of the Concert Division
New York, NY--Kaufman Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Gregory D. Evans to the position of Director of the Concert Division.
Mr. Evans has enjoyed a broad range of activities in his professional career, ranging from chamber musician to arts administrator to university professor. As an active performing musician, Gregory has produced, performed and recorded numerous concerts and programs for entities such as the Midori Foundation, the Aspen Music Festival, STX/Ensemble Xenakis USA (which he co-founded and managed), Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts Series, the Crosstown Ensemble, the Manhattan Brass Quintet (of which he was a member until 2003), The Fischoff Competition, and Vanguard Chamber Players. Mr. Evans spent a year as a horn professor and music history teacher at the University of New Mexico and served for the past three years as the membership director of Chamber Music America. As a touring musician, Mr. Evans has been on the road with Marcus Roberts and The Who's Tommy, among others.
Lydia Kontos, Executive Director of the Kaufman Center is confident that Evans “brings the experience to bear in putting the artists on the stage and the audience into the music. Kontos reiterates, “Greg is completely rooted in music and the artists. I can see that he has strong ideas combined with the natural collaborative skills of a chamber musician."
Mr. Evans holds a Bachelor of Arts from The Juilliard School, and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music. As a soloist, he has performed, premiered and commissioned chamber music by many of our most challenging composers.
He and his wife Danielle have three daughters: Lily Ann, Rosie and Daphne.
Please join us in welcoming Mr. Evans to the Kaufman Center and Merkin Concert Hall.
About Merkin Concert Hall
Renowned for its acoustics, accessibility and innovative programming, Merkin Concert Hall is the recipient of multiple awards for Adventurous Programming, most recently from ASCAP/Chamber Music America in 2002-03. The Hall is a division of the Kaufman Center, which also includes the Lucy Moses School (a community arts school) and the Special Music School (a New York City public school for musically gifted children). A not-for-profit organization founded in 1952, the Kaufman Center occupies its own facility, the award-winning Goodman House, located in the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Through its three divisions, the Center is an unsurpassed cultural resource where people of all ages experience the joy of artistic creation, expression and appreciation.
The Kaufman Center's presentations in Merkin Concert Hall are made possible in part with support from the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, Amphion Foundation, BMI Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Edward T. Cone Foundation, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Fink Foundation, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, Ridgefield Foundation, Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Foundation, Slovin Foundation, The Starr Foundation, Phyllis Fox and George Sternlieb Foundation and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. The Poppy Seed Players “Planting New Seeds" commissioning program is made possible with the support of Andrea Brown, Rosalind Devon, Charles Dimston, Connie and Leonard Goodman and Kara Unterberg and Roy Niederhoffer.
Merkin Concert Hall receives support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
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