Peter Evans (musician)
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Peter Evans is an American trumpet player based in New York, who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. Peter Evans has been a member of the New York City musical community since 2003, when he moved to the city after graduating from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Peter currently works in a wide variety of areas, including solo performance, chamber orchestras, performance art, free improvised settings, electro-acoustic music and composition.
Evans has toured throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, and England, and has just released his first solo trumpet album, “More is More”, which was reviewed in the October issue of The Wire Magazine by Brian Morton. The album was released on Evan Parker's psi label
He performs often with his quartet (with Brandon Seabrook, Tom Blancarte, & Kevin Shea), Moppa Elliot's terrorist bebop band "Mostly Other People Do the Killing", the hyperactive free-improvisation duo "Sparks" (with Tom Blancarte), the Histrionics, the free-jazz quintet "Carnivalskin" (with Klaus Kugel and Bruce Eisenbeil), the "Language Of" with Charles Evans, the "Christmas Duo" with trombonist Sam Kulik, as well as a sustained interest in solo performance. In New York, Peter also performs contemporary notated music with groups such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Contiuum, and Ensemble 21. He has continued to perform on piccolo trumpet in Baroque settings, performing Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 at the Bargemusic series, and in Bach’s Mass in B Minor at St. Peter’s Church. Other recent collaborators include: Mary Halvorson, Dave Taylor, Mark Gould, Perry Robinson, Fred Frith, Brian Chase (drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Nate Wooley, Zach Hill (drummer for Hella), Stefan Tcherepnin, Chris McCintyre, Dave Reminick, Ned Rothenberg, Okkyung Lee, Briggan Krauss, Chris Speed, and Andrew Drury.
