Dean Evenson

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Dean Evenson playing his Haynes silver flute

Dean Evenson (born December 14, 1944) [1] is an American new-age musician, composer, producer, and videographer. [2] Dean plays several instruments including the Western concert flute, Native American flute, synthesizer, and keyboard. His music generally features sounds of nature combined with flute melodies and other instruments for ambience, massage, meditation, yoga and relaxation.

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Work and collaboration

Evenson has collaborated with many artists, including Li Xiangting, master of the guqin (Chinese 7-string zither), Sergey Kuryokhin, Russian avant-garde composer, and Native American elder Cha-das-ska-dum. He has also collaborated with Hungarian pianist Tom Barabas, trance guitarist Scott Huckabay, harpist d'Rachael, and Tim Alexander, innovative drummer from the rock group Primus. In 1969, Evenson played flute for the psychedelic rock group The Blues Magoos on their album Never Goin' Back to Georgia.

He worked in Manhattan as a recording engineer for Regent Sound with many Atlantic recording artists, including Eric Clapton, Mose Allison, and Roberta Flack.

In 1970, he and his wife Dudley Evenson became involved in the portable-video movement. They worked under grants from the New York State Council on the Arts with Raindance Foundation and helped publish a magazine called Radical Software. During the 1970s, the Evensons traveled the country in a half-sized converted school bus, documenting the emerging new-age consciousness. They produced hundreds of hours of half-inch black-and-white video.

His work has also been included in the PBS series "The Way West" and the preview for "The Jungle Book"

Life

He was born in Denver, Colorado, United States. [1]

Evenson's hometown is Staten Island, New York.

Evenson got his master's degree in Molecular Biology in 1968 from the University of Maine. He currently lives with his wife, Dudley, in the Pacific Northwest by a wild river in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. They have three children and one granddaughter.

In 1979, Dean and Dudley Evenson founded the independent record company Soundings of the Planet in Tucson, Arizona.

In 1992 Evenson perform with the American singer-songwriter and environmentalism John Denver in Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro [3] [4] .

Partial discography, DVDs, and books

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Dean Evenson Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & Mor..." AllMusic . Retrieved December 14, 2024.
  2. Bronstein, Marla (2017-12-22). "Local Treasures Dean and Dudley Evenson and Soundings of the Planet". Whatcomtalk.com. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
  3. "Dean Evenson". Soundings.com. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  4. "ALTERNATIVE MEETING OPENS IN RIO". deseret.com. Retrieved 6 August 2025.