Double bassist and composer Evan Premo is an active chamber musician who performs regularly with Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall in New York City as well as internationally. Evan has performed concerti with numerous orchestras including the 2009 world premiere of his own double concerto for violin and double bass with Andrés Cárdenes and the Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Evan has also collaborated with Yizhak Schotten, Katherine Collier, the Bergonzi string quartet and the Formosa String Quartet, in addition to performing his own arrangements for piano and double bass at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He has been featured as a soloist and chamber musician numerous times on National Public Radio shows Performance Today and From the Top.
Upon graduation from the University of Michigan where he earned degrees in double bass performance and composition, Evan was awarded the prestigious Albert A. Stanley Medal. Evan also won 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 under Michael Haithcock. 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.
With his wife soprano, Mary Bonhag, Evan is also a member of Duo Borealis and a founder of Scrag Mountain Music, a chamber music series in central Vermont. http://scragmountainmusic.weebly.com
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