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Reviewer's Bio
Evan Shinners
Juilliard pianist Evan Shinners is a young emerging icon in classical and popular music. After starting piano at age 9, Shinners made his debut with the Utah symphony at age 12. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Avery Fisher Hall, the American Irish Historical Society of New York, and Verizon Hall at the Kimell Center in Philadelphia. The founder and host of an online radio show entitled "This is E.S.," he has dedicated time to promoting students at the Juilliard School and classical music through a fresh new medium combining hip-hop music with emerging trends in classical music and poetry. Shinners can play anything from classical to jazz, ragtime to Billy Joel, and is an avid performer of his own original music, influenced by Bob Dylan and Jack Kerouac, which he has performed throughout the United States and Ireland.
He graduated with Scholastic Distinction from Juilliard in 2008 after writing his thesis on James Joyce's Ulysses. He studies piano with Jerome Lowenthal and poetry with Ron Price, and is enrolled in the Masters of Music program. He and composer/poet Derek Roberts are the co-founders of a New York based movement entitled "The New Cull," which showcases young painters, poets, writers, actors, dancers and musicians in private and public concerts performing a variety of media, anything from punk rock to Shakespearian sonnets. Shinners and the movement have performed for such personalities as Milton Babbitt, Liam Neeson and Wallace Shawn. Evan is a published poet.
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