Nogales, Arizona native Evan Kory is a vivid keyboardist with repertoire ranging from the renaissance and baroque to the 21st Century. Equally versed in the modern piano and period keyboard instruments, he graduated from Manhattan School of Music with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and a second masters in historical performance from The Juilliard School as a full-scholarship student. Throughout his time in New York he studied with Phillip Kawin, Peter Sykes, Richard Egarr, and Beatrice Martin. Evan has performed throughout the United States as well as Canada, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Russia, Australia and China in venues such as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Leipzig Bach Archive, the Kosciuszko Foundation, Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in Montréal, St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, Lyceum of Arts Recital Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia, Beijing International Music Festival and others. Evan recorded an all-J.S. Bach cd on the Master Performers label and continues to perform Bach’s solo keyboard repertoire on harpsichord and piano. His doctoral dissertation was an exploration of performance practices in the piano music of Johannes Brahms through the early recordings and writings of Brahms’ and Clara Schumann’s students. As continuo keyboardist he has performed with The Phoenix Symphony, New York Baroque Incorporated, Inwood Baroque, Olmos Ensemble, and many other chamber groups throughout the United States. Evan was the 2017-18 Artist in Residence at the Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts and continues to perform solo and chamber music recitals at the Benderly-Kendall Opera House in Patagonia, Arizona.