Sinfonietta, Movement 2

Sinfonietta for Mixed Chamber Wind Ensemble by Jacob Evarts
The Naval Academy Band Call for Scores Composition Competition was founded in 2021 to expand the repertoire of new works for our unique instrumentation. During 2022, the USNA Band solicited and accepted woodwind and mixed chamber wind scores for review. We received over 70 submissions from a diverse and international pool of composers.
WINNER:
Jacob Evarts is a composer, hornist, and current sophomore at the University of Georgia. He has been composing since the age of 10. He entered and won the Georgia Music Educators Composition Competition for small ensembles for 5 straight years, from 2016 to 2020. His first winning composition for large ensemble was awarded by the Warren County Summer School of Music in 2019. His winning piece “Wildcat Fanfare” was written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the opening of both Locust Grove Middle and Locust Grove High Schools, his middle and high school alma maters. In January 2020, he was awarded first runner-up in the Lowell Mason House music advocacy competition. He was chosen as one of the 2022 National Young Composers Challenge winners with his work for full orchestra, Wonder of the World. He has also had his works performed by the US Naval Academy Band and the US Air Force Band of the West. When not composing, Evarts plays horn in various UGA large ensembles, and mellophone in the UGA Redcoat Marching Band.