Indie Music Women’s Featured Artist of the Day is…
Kirsten Evans (@kirstenhevans)
“To give a brief summary of my story I am a British composer who has most recently completed working in the music departments for the Hulu Original ‘I am Greta’ and the new MARVEL movie ‘Morbius’ during my first year as a freelance media music composer. On the first day of my undergraduate degree 4 years ago, I was asked to work as co-composer and vocalist for Wales’ national entry to the Venice Biennale in 2017, which then toured the UK after it’s 5 month stay in Venice with the 30,000+ visitors that went to the installation.
Just this past year (2020…) I have completed work in Stockholm, Sweden, moved back the UK to found a sample library company (soundbake) that moves against the masculine undercurrent of the virtual instrument market, and quarantined in Barbados for 2 weeks in order to enter the US and start building the foundations for the media career I wish to build in Los Angeles in 2021.
My upcoming project, and the one I am most excited for, is a coaching business that helps new freelance musicians, who struggle to monetise their skills in an achievable, profitable, and fulfilling way, to create a web of passive income streams that allow them to earn a living based purely off of their musical talents. My partner and I are creating a 1:1 coaching program that will be transformed into an online course by the end of 2021. To accompany this, we are building a networking app for remote session musicians to facilitate self-promotion (as taught in our 1:1 program) with a collaborative project management toolkit and additional springboard opportunities.”
Bio courtesy of Kirsten Evans.
Kirsten shared with me what it means to her personally to be an indie music woman artist:
“To me, being a female musician means freedom and choice. I am lucky enough to have the option to follow a career that I have dreamed about since I first joined a choir at the age of 10. One of the most exciting parts about working in music is the chance to communicate all of my crazy ideas to the world and see everyone’s reactions to my work, good or bad! It is fascinating to see the different ways that people react to my music and it is so overwhelming when people even get lost in my music! How crazy is that! Music provides me with the mechanism to support, entertain, and connect with others in and out of the industry which is something I care more and more about as my career continues. One of the highlights of my career so far was receiving one simple comment from a passer-by: I built and created an installation for children to introduce them to the families of the orchestra through touch and play and one parent simple told me how their daughter loved the installation and didn’t want to leave. All of the effort that went into that project was worth it from that moment on.”
