Staff & faculty

Dr. Clifton Evans currently serves as Director of Orchestras, Associate Professor of Music, Graduate Advisor, and String Area Coordinator at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is also Artistic Director of the Arlington Youth Symphony. Dr. Evans has enjoyed a conducting career that has taken him to Hong Kong, England, China, Austria, the Czech Republic and throughout the United States.

Dr. Evans’ previous positions include Director of Orchestras and Chamber Music for the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Music Director for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston, Conductor for the Houston Youth Symphony, and Music Director and Conductor of the Houston Civic Symphony. He earned a BM in Percussion Performance and a MM in Orchestral Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin and a DMA from the University of Houston. He resides in Arlington with his wife, Christy, and their four children, Samuel, Luke, Gabriel, and Ava Grace.

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