Evan Hause is an American composer. He has performed as a percussionist, guitarist, keyboardist, bassist, and vocalist and has conducted numerous works of his own (including three operas) and other composers. His musical influences were strongly shaped by early performing experiences in rock bands, symphony orchestras, and avant-garde percussion and contemporary music ensembles. He has also worked in the theater and improvisational groups, and taught composition, theory, analysis, and percussion to college students. Hause received several ASCAP Morton Gould awards; residencies at the Edward Albee “Barn” in Montauk, MacDowell, and Atlantic Center for the Arts; grants from the Alice K. Ditson Fund of Columbia University and the Brooklyn Arts Council; the Rackham Regents and Dissertation Fellowships of the University of Michigan; the Herbert Elwell Composer Award of the Oberlin Conservatory; the Sanford Scholarship of the North Carolina School of the Arts; and an Aspen Music Festival scholarship. His music is either self-published or available from Edward B. Marks Music Company and is recorded on the Albany, Cadence, Cantaloupe, Equilibrium, GIA, and MSR labels.
Evan Hause
Studios
Watson
Evan Hause worked in the Watson studio.
Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…