Evan Kos

Evan Kos is a pianist, trombonist, and arranger who first started playing piano at age 5. After picking up the trombone in 4th grade, he fell in love with music. Evan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in jazz studies from New York University (NYU). He has taught at Plymouth Public Schools, Kidstock Creative Theater, and NCMC, and is interested in many styles of music including classical, jazz, musical theater, film soundtracks, R&B, and rock. Evan has written arrangements for groups as small as 2 musicians, and as large as a jazz nonet, and likes to record his arrangements for YouTube.

Evan studied trombone with Alan Ferber, Ed Neumeister, and Dion Tucker. He has played orchestral trombone in the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, jazz trombone in the NYU jazz orchestra, pit orchestra for musicals such as Barnum, Cabaret, The Music man, and Titanic the Musical, and has taken part in numerous competitions and festivals including The Essentially Ellington Competition, the Charles Mingus festival, and the Panama Jazz festival. He is also experienced in playing Euphonium and Tuba, and has played in Tuba Christmas in Boston.

Evan is excited to be working at the Prindle School, and to be teaching all ages and genres of music!