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 Click here to go to Dr. David Evenson's Web Page

Click here to go to the SLU Dept. of Music & Arts Webpage

 A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, David Evenson began piano study at the age of 9 under James D. Johnson. He received the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at Indiana University where he studied for six years with the late Cuban-American virtuoso Jorge Bolet, and in 1982 he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Arizona as a student of Ozan Marsh. Other musical study included two summers at L'école des beaux arts in Fontainebleu, France (performing in the master classes of Robert Casadesus), and two summers at the Chautauqua Festival Music School in New York. Dr. Evenson is Professor of Music at Southeastern Louisiana University, having joined the faculty in 1979 and in 1992 he received the Southeastern Louisiana University President's Award for Excellence in Artistic Activity. He has served since 1994 as the Head of the Department of Music and Dramatic Arts.

A recently released compact disc recording of chamber music for saxophone and piano (Crystal Records 652) features Dr. Evenson with saxophonist Lawrence Gwozdz, with whom he has performed on Wisconsin Public Radio, Los Angeles Public Radio and Prague Radio. This year MMC Recordings has released a compact disc recording of SLU colleague Stephen Suber's Enchantments: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, with Evenson as piano soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz, conducting (MMC 2072).

As a soloist, Evenson has been heard with the Louisiana Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Louisiana Sinfonietta, the Mississippi Symphony Chamber Orchestra, the Wellesley Symphony in Boston, and the Baton Rouge Symphony.  He has performed chamber music on a tour of Argentina and Uruguay and in Weill Recital Hall in New York City.   A past contributor to The Piano Quarterly, Dr. Evenson is also a co-author of a beginning piano textbook for college students, 24-Karat Piano Skills: A New Approach for Exploring Music (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1993).

 Click here to hear Dr. Evenson perform Fandango, the first movement of Enchantments: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra written by SLU composer Dr. Stephen Suber (MMC Recordings 2072)

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