Composers
Jeremiah Evans
1978 -About
Jeremiah Evans (b. 1978), a native of Dallas TX, graduated from the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in 1996. As a piano performance major at Texas Tech University he was awarded the Donald S. McNair Music Scholarship. Jeremiah Evans has studied piano with Dr. David Karp and Dr. William Westney. He has won awards from numerous piano competitions including the Richardson Symphony Orchestra/ Lennox Young Artists’ Competition and the Baylor/ Waco Piano Competition. He has also performed and studied at summer music festivals and workshops including the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Round Top Music Festival and at the Juilliard School of music in New York City. An accomplished composer, Jeremiah Evans has studied music composition and music theory with noted American composer Dr. Mary Jean Van Appledorn. His music has been performed in recent seasons by Steinway artist and Cambria Records recording artist, Althea Waites on both the east and west coasts of America. He currently resides in Oak Cliff, Texas.
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Works by Jeremiah Evans
| Title | Collection | Voice Type | Range | Poet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset in the Tropics | Two Poems of James Weldon Johnson | High, Medium | Eb4-Gb5 | C#4-E5 | James Weldon Johnson |
| The Butterfly Upon The Sky | Three Poems of Emily Dickinson | Soprano | D4 - G5 | Bb3-Eb5 | Emily Dickinson |
| The Dreams of the Dreamer | Two Poems of Georgia Douglas Johnson | Soprano | F4 - Gb5 | D4 - F5 | Georgia Douglass Johnson |
| The Fox | Two Parables from "The Madman" | High, Medium | F#4-A#5 | D#4-G5 | Kahlil Gibran |
| The Gift to Sing | Two Poems of James Weldon Johnson | High, Medium | C#4-G#5 (Opt. B5) | Bb3-F5 (Opt. Ab5) | James Weldon Johnson |
| The Little Turtle | Two Songs For Children | Soprano | D4 - G5 | Vachel Lindsey |
| The New Colossus | Two Poems of Emma Lazarus | Soprano | Db4 - A5 | Emma Lazarus |
| The Pasture | Two Songs Of The American Countryside | Soprano | Eb4 - G5 (opt. Bb5) | Robert Frost |
| The Pond | Picture of the Floating World | High, Medium | Ab4-Gb5 | F4-Eb5 | Amy Lowell |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | Three Poems of William Carlos Williams | High | E4-F#5 | William Carlos Williams |
| The Rhodora | Two Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson | Medium | C#4-F5 | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| There Will Come Soft Rains | Fanfare & Four Meditations On Spring | Voice | F4 - A5 | Sara Teasdale |
| Velvet Shoes | Voice | E4-G5 | C#4-E5 | Elinor Wylie | |
| Wild Nights! | Three Poems of Emily Dickinson | High, Medium | F#4 - A5 | Eb4-F#5 | Emily Dickinson |
| Winter Night | Two Nocturnes | Soprano | Eb4 - G5 | Sara Teasdale |
| Winter Sweetness | Two Lullabies | High, Medium | E4 - F#5 (Opt. A5) | D4-E5 (Opt. G5) | Langston Hughes |
| Zalka Peetruza (Christened Mary Jane) | Soprano | Eb4-G5 | C4-Eb5 | Raymond Garfield Dandridge |