Seth Evans

Seth Evans

I started studying piano at the age of six at the St. Felix Street Playhouse in Brooklyn, NY, and continued my studies, privately with Noel Sokolow, and the Henry Street Settlement House in Manhattan. After graduating from Brooklyn College, CUNY in 1969, I studied bass with Carol Kaye in Los Angeles.

I began playing guitar in the late 50s and performed as a folk singer/accompanist up and down the East Coast. I took up the electric bass in 1960 and played and recorded with a number of popular music groups of the time. These included Brian Hyland (Itsy-Bitsy Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini and Sealed With A Kiss) and Oliver (Goodmorning Starshine and Jean). I played electric bass for the CBS Orchestra on the Ed Sullivan Show in the late 60s before moving to California.

Upon moving to San Francisco in 1974 I played with a number of jazz groups and cabaret acts. I also became involved in musical theater, performing in many shows including Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well, The Rocky Horror Show, and San Francisco's longest-running musical review, Beach Blanket Babylon. My TV credits include a most enjoyable assignment as the musical director for the NBC-TV special The Great American Laugh-Off, starring Robin Williams.

I have studied composition with David Garner and Alden Jenks at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, composing synthesized film scores and chamber music. Two of my pieces, A New York (Circa 1950) Suite and Scherzo for Woodwind Quartet have been performed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and "A New York (Circa 1950) Suite" was recently performed at a Society of Composers conference in Portland, Oregon.

Most recently I have completed writing the music for a new musical, Roscoe, with book and lyrics by Don Stitt. This is the infamous story of Roscoe 'Fatty" Arbuckle the silent movie star whose career was destroyed by an overly ambitious San Francisco district attorney, and William Randolph Hearst. Truly a Comic Tragedy. A concert version of Roscoe was recently performed in New York City at The Symphony Space. You can learn more about Roscoe by going to The Roscoe Website.