Formerly a faculty member at New England Conservatory and UC Berkeley, he currently directs the jazz program at Ventura College. As a composer, his music has been commissioned and performed by the Encore Saxophone Quartet, San Francisco Symphony, the Lobo Ensemble, Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra violist Victoria Miskolczy, and clarinetist Gary Gray, French hornist Brian O’Connor, and many others. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. Bevan has also written string arrangements for NYC baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan, which he conducted at the Blue Note, and written arrangements recorded by Manhattan Transfer vocalist Cheryl Bentyne and Cathy Segal Garcia.
