Ralph Evans

RALPH EVANS, violinist, prizewinner in the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, has concertized throughout Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Japan, both as soloist and as first violinist (since 1982) of the Fine Arts Quartet. He has recorded 45 solo and chamber works, including the two Bartok Sonatas for violin and piano, whose performance the New York Times enthusiastically recommended for its "searching insight and idiomatic flair," and three virtuoso violin pieces by Lukas Foss with the composer at the piano. Evans has also recorded extensively for radio and television in North America and Europe, has toured the United States as artist member of Music from Marlboro, and has been featured in an ABC-BBC production special on the Tchaikovsky Competition - a film broadcast repeatedly worldwide. Evans graduated cum laude from Yale University with a specialization in music, mathematics, and premed. After winning prestigious Fulbright and Murray Fellowship Grants to London and Zurich for study with Szymon Goldberg and Nathan Milstein, he was awarded the top prize in many major American competitions, among them, the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York, and the National Federation of Music Clubs National Young Artist Competition. A recipient of two dozen prizes, awards, and grants, as well as a doctorate from Yale University, Evans has been honored with international recognition for his work as a composer as well. His award winning Nocturne has been performed on American Public Television and his String Quartet No.1 has recently been premiered in both the U.S. and France, where it was warmly greeted in the press ("seductive, modern sonorities" - France Ouest). As Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, he has received a Wisconsin Public Education Professional Service Award for distinguished music teaching.