ABOUT EVAN

Conductor, Music Director and Pianist Evan Roider maintains an active schedule performing across the United States and abroad.  Equally at home on the symphonic stage and in the pit, he is quickly becoming known as a conductor of great versatility. Currently, he serves as Music Director/Conductor for the National Tour of Wicked, having recently toured with Les Misérables and Cats.  The 2022-2023 season included appearances with Pacific Symphony and The Manhattan Transfer, Tucson Symphony and Pink Martini, and a return engagement to the Greensboro Symphony with Michael Feinstein, celebrating the Judy Garland Centennial. He recently served as a cover conductor for the Dallas Symphony, and in 2023-2024, covers programs with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap.  This season, he returns to Tucson Symphony, makes his debut with Sarasota Orchestra, and continues to conduct Wicked across North America.

 

As a music director and conductor for musical theatre, he has led productions of Mack and Mabel, A Chorus Line, Company, Into the Woods, The Music Man, Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, and The Wizard of Oz, among others. He was the Assistant Music Director for Candide at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and in 2019, was awarded the Best Music Director award from Broadway World CT for his work on Evita (ACT of Connecticut). In 2014, he served as music director and pianist for Broadway in Ravello (Italy), a production that was broadcast on Italian National Television, and in 2013, he premiered new arrangements of Leonard Bernstein works at Grand Performances Los Angeles. With the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and Vineyard Arts Project, he assisted in the development of Home Street Home, a new musical by Fat Mike (NOFX) and Jeff Marx (Avenue Q).  At Barrington Stage, he was the Associate Music Director for the critically acclaimed production of The Pirates of Penzance.  

 

As a pianist, Evan is a strong advocate of new music, having worked with composers Jake Heggie, William Bolcom, Gwyneth Walker, and Ben Moore, among others.  In 2014, he made his debut in China with Cardiff Singer of the World Yang Guang and in 2015, he spearheaded a residency featuring Jake Heggie and Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking).  He has performed at SongFest at the Colburn School, the Indiana University Summer Music Festival, the Amalfi Coast Music Festival, and the New Orleans International Piano Competition Institute.  He has coached with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, Margo Garrett, and Aldo Ciccolini, among others.  

 

Evan is a graduate of the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, where he earned a masters in orchestral conducting.  He received the bachelor of music from the Hartt School under the instruction of Anne Koscielny and David Westfall.