About

Background

Evan picked up his first instrument at six years old, studying guitar at a local music school in Florida. By 2008, he was writing and performing in bands throughout college, cutting his teeth on pop punk before moving into post-hardcore and progressive metal. In 2011, he co-founded With Crown and Tail, an Orlando-based post-hardcore project fronted by Bryan Zimmerman, former vocalist of Sky Eats Airplane (Equal Vision Records). Evan wrote the band's instrumental material across drums, guitars, bass, and synth for their debut EP Europa (2012), recorded at Chango Studios under producer Cameron Mizell, whose credits include Sleeping with Sirens, Memphis May Fire, and Machine Gun Kelly.

The pivot to orchestral composition started in 2022, when he was asked to score an intro for a sports podcast. Writing brass arrangements for that project pulled him into the world of orchestral music, and the connection was immediate: the relentless energy, the layered density, and the emotional escalation of epic orchestral and hybrid trailer music shared deep DNA with the aggressive, maximalist production style he'd spent over a decade building in metal. The momentum carried forward, and he's been composing epic orchestral and hybrid trailer music ever since.

Work & Collaborations

Evan's music has been featured in trailers for Codename: Knightfall, an indie animated fantasy series with a combined social following of over 100K. He has also composed original music for the upcoming audiobook Shackled Hero. Recent releases feature collaborations with vocalists Julie Elven, Clara Sorace, and Psamathes.

Process

Evan approaches composition the way he approached metal: every section has to earn its place. His tracks are built on constant forward motion, structured so that each new passage feels like the best part of the track. There's no coasting. If a section doesn't deliver that visceral reaction where you can barely sit still from excitement while listening to it, it gets rewritten until it does. Nothing ships until every bar passes that test.

That philosophy produces epic orchestral music and trailer scores with a sonic weight and urgency that match the stakes of the content they're built for. The arrangements evolve constantly, building on recurring motifs while layering orchestral sections against heavy percussion and hybrid synth design to keep the momentum climbing. It's what makes the music land in high-stakes contexts like movie trailers, video game cinematics, and advertising campaigns where every second counts.

Influences

His work draws from composers across the orchestral and hybrid spectrum: the cinematic hybrid intensity of David Chappell, Ivan Torrent, and Sybrid, the pure orchestral craft of Blakus, and the folk-infused orchestral writing of Marcus Warner.

Ready to build something epic? Commission a score.