The Author-- Composer, Pianist, Educator, native New Yorker, worked and studied with trumpeter, Dr. Donald Byrd. While at the Juilliard School and Lehman College, he recorded on Strata East and Nil...view moreThe Author-- Composer, Pianist, Educator, native New Yorker, worked and studied with trumpeter, Dr. Donald Byrd. While at the Juilliard School and Lehman College, he recorded on Strata East and Nilva labels. He earned a B.A. in Education at Howard, later a Master’s degree from the State University of Pennsylvania and has begun a doctoral program at the University of Phoenix.
He appeared at the Village Gate, broadcast live on WRVR-FM. His group--TRIAD appeared at NY clubs, ie. Mikell’s, Eric and Sweetwater’s. They opened at The Beacon Theater for Al Green; Trenton’s War Memorial Theater for Pieces of a Dream; did a seven-week Japanese tour.
Bevin produced his first CD, BEVIN:NOW on TURN-TAY-BULL
ENTERPRISES label in 1989; later--eight albums, including O.S.T. SOUNDTRACK on Cdbaby.com.
Bevin worked with violinist Noel Pointer; flautist, Bobbi
Humphrey; with Ralph Mac Donald; arranged/performed film and theater music for Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; performed for Bill Cosby at
the HUNDREDTH YEAR OF JELLO celebration. Bevin’s ballet --
TARA’S FIRST CHRISTMAS was performed at The Plaza Hotel,
Manhattan.
Currently, he is producing in his digital studio--TARAH/SARAH
PRODUCTIONS. Bevin’s first novels--THE OTHER SIDE OF
TOMORROW: Books 1-3 --he hopes to make into a screenplay(3) and
compose the score.
Artistic/Executive Director of BRONX RENAISSANCE
COMMUNITY THEATER-- innovative, intergenerational not-for-profit - -Bevin’s engaged in school, community center; church, gigs, teaching privately-- piano, drums, violin, trumpet- expanding his catalog
containing hundreds of pieces in various genres.view less