Having made 20th century music his specialty, his keyboard performances include such works as Le Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky performed on two pianos in Cleveland, Akron and at the Butler Art Museum in Youngstown, Ohio, Makrokosmos Volume III for two Pianos and Percussion by George Crumb performed in Kent and Akron, Ohio, and Concerto for Piano and Winds by Igor Stravinsky performed with the LCCC Community Orchestra.
As an active composer, Dr. Evans' compositions have been performed at such institutions as Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland State University, Kent State University, The Western Reserve Society, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Akron Art Museum, Indiana State University as well as others. In 1995 Urban Excursions for piano solo was performed at the Midwest Composers Forum at Indiana State University. His recent compositions include Ex Nihilo for Percussion Ensemble, Two Moods for Piano Solo, Two Improvisations for Piano Solo, Transitonique for English Horn and Fifteen Instruments, Six Songs on the Poems of Dorota Sobieska for Voice and Percussion and Fantasy for Alto Sax and Orchestra.
. He is a winner of two University Fellows given in 1989-1990, and a 1995 NISOD National Teaching Award. Two recent publications include an article on "The Development and Application of the Chain Technique in the Recent Works of Lutoslawski", and Brass Windows, for brass quintet. He has delivered papers on contemporary music theory at the 1991 Society for Music Theory Conference, the 1994 Indiana State University Theory Symposium, the 1990 Bowling Green State University New Music and Art Festival and a 1996 Composition Seminar at Kent State University.
Dr. Evans has appeared in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Northern Ohio Live, Sun Press . . . and has appeared as Guest Speaker on WCPN, WJW and performances have appeared on WCLV. He currently lives in Elyria, Ohio with his wife Patricia and four children, Jocelyn, Gerald Nathan, Allison and Christa.