Evan Hause has composed a rich body of work including orchestral, band, choral, and chamber music, rock albums, serious and light operas, and electro-acoustic music. A skilled performer himself, he has performed as a percussionist, guitarist, keyboardist, bassist, and vocalist and has conducted numerous works of his own (including three operas) and other composers. His musical influences were strongly shaped by early performing experiences in rock bands, symphony orchestras, and avante garde percussion and contemporary music ensembles.

His music has been commissioned by the Albany Symphony, Riverside Symphony (NYC), Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Capitol Saxophone Quartet, Oberlin Percussion Group, Carolina Chamber Music Festival, University of Michigan Symphony Band, pianist Blair McMillen, the Creviston Duo, the Yellow Barn Festival, and Tales&Scales. It has been featured by the Boston, Phoenix, Utah, Louisville, Memphis, Brooklyn and Grand Rapids Symphonies, “Spring in Havana” Electronic Music Festival, Cincinnati Conservatory Orchestra, and bands of the Universities of Florida, Massachusetts, Southern California, North Texas, and East Carolina. Additionally it has been performed in Japan, South Korea, Jordan, Mexico, England, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Thailand, Ireland, Taiwan, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Venezuela and Brazil.

Upon moving to New York City in 1999, Hause quickly thrived in the uptown chamber music and downtown free improvisation scene, was music director for a handful of theatrical productions, and helped form the vanguard of the city’s new opera scene by writing and producing three new operas between 2001-2007. He performed as percussionist in several contemporary music ensembles, including the Locrian Chamber Players and SEM Ensemble, and as electric guitarist-arranger in Alarm Will Sound. His music was played at Miller Theater, Alice Tully Hall, and Galapagos, as well as many smaller venues. Most recently he conducted the City of Prague Philharmonic in recordings of two of his works, and released several large-scale, collaborative rock-jazz-pop albums on his own label, EVHA.

Hause received several ASCAP young composer awards; residencies at the Edward Albee ”Barn” on Montauk, MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Burren College of Art (Ireland); grants from the Ditson Fund of Columbia University and the Brooklyn Arts Council; the Rackham Regents and Dissertation Fellowships of the University of Michigan; the Herbert Elwell Composer Award of the Oberlin Conservatory; the Sanford Scholarship of the North Carolina School of the Arts; and an Aspen Music Festival scholarship.

Originally from Greenville, North Carolina, Hause is the son of an orchestra conductor and piano teacher. He earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory (BM) and University of Michigan (MM, DMA). Teachers included William Bolcom, William Albright, Randolph Coleman, Richard Hoffmann, and Sherwood Shaffer. Prior to moving to New York City he taught theory, composition, and percussion at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. He currently resides in West Orange, New Jersey with his wife, a Rutgers University clarinet professor, and two daughters. For fifteen years he managed the Edward B. Marks Music Company, a prominent classical music publisher, for the Carlin America company.