Evan Hargrave is an emerging composer and performer based in Portland, Oregon. He has studied music since childhood after discovering an early affinity for piano. During his undergraduate studies at the University of Oklahoma, Evan studied classical percussion with a focus on the marimba and vibraphone before switching to a Bachelor of Music in Composition. The University of Oklahoma composition program gave him the opportunity to study organ, which has become his primary instrument and a major influence on his compositional technique. Since high school he has been primarily interested in the modern repertoire as well as the works of J.S. Bach and earlier contrapuntal masters, a focus culminating in his recent masters thesis, Chamber Symphony (2025), that takes an eclectic yet systematic approach to aesthetically and theoretically synthesizing these two disparate traditions in his personal lyrical style.

With experience working in most major genres of contemporary classical music, Evan Hargrave primarily writes for and performs mixed chamber ensemble and solo keyboard repertoire, with a particular interest in collections and suites of keyboard miniatures. Following his Chamber Symphony (2025), he also hopes to add more symphonic works to his catalog.

Evan Hargrave is a composer and performer based in Portland Oregon. His experience performing a broad range of repertoires, from renaissance polyphony to contemporary collaborations, inform his unique compositional approach that melds modernist sonorities with contrapuntal lyricism.

MMus – Music Composition, University of Oregon 2025

BMus – Music Composition, University of Oklahoma 2022