Evan Kassof
Media, Marketing, and Concert Production Associate
Evan Kassof is an opera maker, sound artist, composer, and conductor, based in Philadelphia. His most recent opera – libretto by Aleksandar Hut Kono – Ganymede 5 premiered in the 2019 Philly Fringe Festival, while his operas Colony and Greenland were performed in London at the Royal Opera House. He is the Music Director of ENAensemble and is currently producing the second Serial Opera Project, bringing six newly commissioned chamber operas to life. He has conducted extensively in Philadelphia as a new music specialist and performs as a cellist and viola di gamba player. He earned is PhD in Music Composition from Temple University in 2021 with a specialization in opera making and research.
With a background in physics, he has collaborated directly with physicists on Heat Death and
Turbulence and written phenomenologically-inspired works such as those in his Cosmos N series. His recent orchestral work Cosmos 5 – Water Music, uses the spectroscopic properties of water molecules to generate orchestral harmonies and form. As a Sound Artist, he has collaborated with visual and performance artist Austen Camille on the 5+ hour long piece Theme and Variations on Field Notes which premiered on TwitchTV in February 2021. More recently, he has collaborated with visual artist and textile researcher Ana Mosquera on Dead Flipping, an interactive audio-visual “home” developed for the National Liberty Museum’s This is my Home exhibition. Check out more at evankassof.com and follow him on Instagram: @evankassof
Evan is incredibly excited to join Network for New Music to help expand the reach of this wonderful music!