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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(source: composer via facebook.com)Works by Jeremiah Evans
| Title | Collection | Voice Type | Range | Poet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Cry | Two Poems of Sara Teasdale | High, Medium | E4 - F#5 | F4-G5 | Sarah Tensdale |
| A Farm Picture | Two Songs Of The American Countryside | High | E4 - F#5 | Walt Whitman |
| A Light Exists in Spring | Fanfare & Four Meditations On Spring | High | Eb4 - Ab5 | Emily Dickinson |
| A Lover | Picture of the Floating World | High, Medium | F4 - G5 | D4 - E5 | Amy Lowell |
| Acrostic - Eliza Hughes | Two Poems of Henry Livingston Jr. | High, Medium | D#4-F#5 | C#4-E5 | Henry Livingston Jr. |
| Afternoon on a Hill | Two Songs For Children | Soprano, Medium | Eb4 - G5 | D4-E5 | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| An Hymn to the Evening | American Mosaic, Twelve American Art Songs | Medium, High | D4 - F#5, opt. B5 | B3-Eb5, opt. G5 | Phillis Wheatly |
| April | Fanfare & Four Meditations On Spring | High | D4-G5 | Sara Teasdale |
| April Rain Song | American Mosaic, Twelve American Art Songs | High, Medium | E4 - G5 | C#4-E5 | Langston Hughes |
| Autumn Haze | Picture of the Floating World | High, Medium | F4 - Eb5 | D4-C5 | Amy Lowell |
| Belle Gunness | High, Medium | E4-F5 | A3-E5 | Anonymous | |
| Brahma | Two Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson | Medium | C4-Eb5 | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| But Not To Me | Two Poems of Sara Teasdale | High, Medium | F4 - F5 | D4 - D5 | Sarah Tensdale |
| Catharine Breese Livingston | Two Poems of Henry Livingston Jr. | High, Medium | E4 - G#5 | D4 - F#5 | Henry Livingston Jr. |
| Central Park at Dusk | High, Medium | Eb4-Ab5 | C4-F5 | Sarah Tensdale | |
| Departing Summer | American Mosaic, Twelve American Art Songs | High, Medium | E4 - G#5 | C#4-F5 | George Moses Horton |
| Drifting Flowers Of The Sea | Medium | B3-E5 | Sadakichi Hartmann | |
| El Gato | Three Poems of William Carlos Williams | High | G4-G5 | William Carlos Williams |
| El Hombre | Three Poems of William Carlos Williams | High | E4-G5 | William Carlos Williams |
| Eldorado | High, Medium | Eb4-A5 | B3-F5 | Edgar Alan Poe | |
| Fairies | Two Lullabies | High, Medium | E4 - F#5 | D4 - E5 | Langston Hughes |
| For a Lady I Know | Four Epitaphs | High, Medium | E4-G5 | D4-F5 | Countee Cullen |
| For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty | Four Epitaphs | High, Medium | F#4-G#5 | Eb4-F5 | Countee Cullen |
| For my Grandmother | Four Epitaphs | High, Medium | Bb4-F#5 | D4-Bb4 | Countee Cullen |
| For Paul Laurence Dunbar | Four Epitaphs | High, Medium | G4-G5 | F4-F5 | Countee Cullen |
| I Never Saw A Moor | Three Poems of Emily Dickinson | High, Medium | D4 - G5 | B3-E5 | Emily Dickison |
| If You Should Go | High, Medium | D4-G5 | C4-F5 | Countee Cullen | |
| July Midnight | Two Poems of Amy Lowell | High, Medium | D4 - G5 | B3-E5 | Amy Lowell |
| Lizzie Borden | American Mosaic, Twelve American Art Songs | High | E4 - G5 | Anonymous |
| Long Island Sound | American Mosaic, Twelve American Art Songs | High, Medium | D4 - A5 | B3-F#5 | Emma Lazarus |
| Long Island Sound | Two Poems of Emma Lazarus | High, Medium | D4 - A5 | B3-F#5 | Emma Lazarus |
| Lost Illusion | Two Poems of Georgia Douglas Johnson | High, Medium | D4 - A5 | Bb3 - F5 | Georgia Douglass Johnson |
| Madonna of the Evening Flowers | Two Poems of Amy Lowell | High | D4 - C6 (Opt. A5) | Amy Lowell |
| Nuance | Picture of the Floating World | High, Medium | Gb4-Eb5 | Eb4-C5 | Amy Lowell |
| Nuit Blanche | Picture of the Floating World | High, Medium | Eb4 - G5 | C4 - E5 | Amy Lowell |
| Oblivion | Two Poems Of Jessie Redmon Fauset | High | Db4 - G5 | Jessie Redmon Fauset |
| Oh, Give Me Back My Bended Bow | Two Poems Of Native American Poets | High, Medium | Eb4-G5 | Db4-F5 | Alexander Posey |
| On the Steps of the Temple | Two Parables from "The Madman" | High, Medium | F4-Ab5 | D4-G5 | Kahlil Gibran |
| Owed to New York | American Mosaic, Twelve American Art Songs | High, Medium | Eb4-G5 | C#4-F5 | Bryon Rufus Newton |
| Psalm 117 | Two Psalms | High, Medium | D4-A5 | B3-F#5 | Biblical |
| Psalm 23 | Two Psalms | High, Medium | D4-Ab5 | B3-F5 | Biblical |
| Rain Fugue | Two Poems Of Jessie Redmon Fauset | High | E4 - G5 | Jessie Redmon Fauset |
| Sea Gypsy | High, Medium | E4 - G#5 | C4-E#5 | Jessie Redmon Fauset | |
| Seashells | Two Poems Of Native American Poets | High, Medium | D4-F5 | C4-Eb5 | Alexander Posey |
| Sonnet LXXXI | A Ceremony of Songs | Voice | E4 - A5 | Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson |
| Southern Mansion | Two Songs Of The American South | High | Eb4 - A5 | B3 - F5 | Arna Bontemps |
| Spring Night | Two Nocturnes | Soprano | D4 - A5 | Sara Teasdale |
| Spring Pools | Fanfare & Four Meditations On Spring | High | D4-F#5 | Robert Frost |
| Summer in the South | American Mosaic, Twelve American Art Songs | High | D4 - G5 | B3 - E5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| Summer in the South | Two Songs Of The American South | High | D4 - G5 | B3 - E5 | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| Composer | Title | Work | Instrumentation | Level | Number of Movements | Accompanied | Size | Duration Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah Evans | A Fanfare for the Celebration of Spring | Bb Clarinet | 5 | No | Solo |