Bryan Evans MBE

Bryan Evans piano trained as a concert pianist at The Royal College Music and later specialised in piano accompaniment.

He has performed extensively as soloist and accompanist throughout the UK and Europe, in London at The Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and St John’s Smith Square and has appeared on BBC Radios 3 and 4, Channel 4 Television and the BBC World Service.

A leading exponent of accompanying chamber opera, he has played for over 4,500 performances world-wide and has also conducted performances of Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, L’elisir d’amore, and Le Nozze di Figaro (including five performances in the Opera House at the Palace of Versailles).

In 1996 he co-founded Diva Opera as music and artistic director, who now tour internationally giving around sixty performances of full operas and concerts annually. He is also Music Director of Les Azuriales Opera Festival and their associated Young Artist’s Programme and a professor of vocal and opera repertoire at the Royal College of Music, London. Bryan Evans was awarded an MBE for his services to music and opera in the 1993 New Years’ Honours List.