Artistic Director- Frances Evans

Frances Evans is a violinist, educator and collaborator residing on her family’s sheep and cattle property in the Warren Shire, Western New South Wales. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Warren Chamber Music Festival. Alongside her, Phil Leman, Dr John Burke, Marieanne Noonan and Rod Sandell make up the brains trust behind the festival!

Frances studied violin and piano from a young age, her parents travelling over 200 kilometres fortnightly to Narromine and Dubbo for lessons. After completing school, she studied at the Suzuki Talent and Education Research Institute, Matsumoto Japan. Frances then directed her own violin teaching studio in Dubbo for two years and performed across the region. In 2006, Frances studied violin performance under the tutelage of Tor Fromyhr, at the School of Music, ANU. Whilst there, she received scholarships from Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Youth Orchestra. Frances moved to Hobart in 2010 and completed post graduate studies at the Conservatorium of Music. The call home to her family’s sixth generation sheep and cattle grazing property was strong so she pursued education. On her journey back to Warren she was Director of Music at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College in Melbourne.

Frances is the director of Symphonia Jubilate Outback youth orchestra initiative and founder of the SING Warren community choir, an initiative of the Warren Chamber Music Festival. Since returning to the west, she has collaborated with Australian violinist Peter Clark, Musica Viva, Katie Noonan and the Australian Vocal Ensemble, Kerry Morenos director of Principal Organs, Australian composer Fiona Loader, Ensemble Offspring, and the Goldner String Quartet. She has also had the privilege of working with many of Australia’s brightest stars through the Warren Chamber Music Festival.

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