For audiences, Evan makes music beautifully and professionally.
For students, Evan makes music fun and easy!
For congregants, Evan makes music soulfully.
For love, Evan makes music joyfully!
Welcome to Evan Makes Music!
Evan Tintle Charpentier began her study of voice at age thirteen, and continued honing and pursuing her craft all the way to a BA at Vassar College in 2003 (double-majoring in music and drama, and receiving Honors in Music) and a Master of Music from Montclair State University in 2007.
Evan’s studies have brought her to Spoleto, Italy, for the Spoleto Arts Symposium, and given her the opportunity to perform in masterclasses with such figures as Mira Zakai, Ned Rorem, and Zehava Gall. She has performed such roles as The Secretary in Menotti’s The Consul, Queen Elisabeth in scenes from Britten’s Gloriana, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffman, the Soprano in Tom Johnson’s contemporary solo piece, Drawers, and the premiere of The Whiskey Pete Cycle, a Joey Gillis composition concerning the US’s use of white phosphorus in Fallujah.
She's also an avid theater / musical theater fan, and recently performed in Children of Eden (Mama) as well as The Vagina Monologues, Avenue Q (Lucy), Dream of Wings (Susan), When Tony Met Oscar, Sing Me a Story, and the Great American Trailer Park Musical (Jeannie), all with Old Library Theater in Fair Lawn.
In addition to performing, Evan has also taught voice and piano for studios in Denville, Wayne, Pompton Lakes, and Cliffside Park, and now teaches at the Olive Tree Music Academy in Morris Plains, and privately out of Garfield. Evan is also an accomplished liturgical musician, having worked as a section leader and soloist for the United Methodist Church of Bernardsville, and is currently the Music Director for Our Lady of Mt. Virgin Church in Garfield.
Evan is also a playwright, who received the Bergen County Young Playwright's Award in high school for "The Exciting Weekly Adventures of Chorus Girl." Her play "Of Troy" was produced in New York by the EstroTribe in 2002, and her one-act, "katfished" was produced as part of OLT's One-Act Play Festival last year, where it won a NJ Act Perry Award.
