Evan Premo, upon graduating from the University of Michigan School of Music, received its highest honor awarded to a graduating senior, the Stanley Metal. Evan is now a fellow of "The Academy" a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute. As part of this program, Evan performs chamber music regularly at Carnegie Hall and does outreach in public schools in NYC. Evan is an active chamber musician and has performed concerti with numerous orchestras. He has collaborated with such artists as Andrés Cárdenes, Yizhak Schotten, Katherine Collier, and the Formosa String Quartet, in addition to performing his own arrangements for piano and double bass at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. A graduate of the University of Michigan where he earned degrees in double bass performance and composition, Evan was a winner of the school's concerto competition in 2006 and, that same year, premiered his own Concertino for Bass Fiddle and Winds with the University of Michigan's Symphony Band. Evan's double bass teachers include virtuosos Diana Gannett and Gary Karr, and he has studied composition with Michael Daugherty, Susan Botti, and Evan Chambers. He is also a member of Duo Borealis with soprano Mary Bonhag.
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