about
Evan Losoya is a composer, pianist, and oboist from the San Francisco Bay Area. His music spans multimedia presentations, recitals, and film, including silent cinema. He has collaborated with ensembles such as Treske Quartet, Alter Face Piano Ensemble, LIGAMENT, loadbang, and Platypus Ensemble.
Drawing from his background in linguistics, Evan explores linguistic analysis as a compositional process, drawing from corpus linguistics, natural language data collection, and recurrent speech patterns to inform his work.
Evan's compositions have been performed throughout the United States as well as internationally in cities such as Vienna, Austria and São Paulo, Brazil. Since 2021, he has served as chairman of the Grand Arts Consortium, where he has composed and transcribed several film scores for the Grand Feature Film Orchestra (GFFO). Most recently, the GFFO performed his score for Buster Keaton’s 1924 silent comedy Sherlock Jr.
Evan is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, where he is also completing a Master of Music in Music Theory Pedagogy. He holds degrees from the California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A.) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., minor in Linguistics).