Jewish composer, author, and educator, Evan Davis is a current graduate student and theory instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He graduated from Westminster Choir College with a Theory and composition major and Piano Pedagogy minor in 2023.

Evan started piano lessons at four years old, and quickly built up the talent of playing music on the piano by ear. His exposure to video game music as far back as elementary school led him to study harmony in middle and high school which culminated in him attending the Berklee School of Music 5-week intensive where he learned jazz theory.

Starting in college, Evan spent 4 years composing and building theoretical models to explain complicated harmonic sonorities found in Japanese video game music—a practice that would shape him into the theorist he is today.

In his last two years of undergraduate, he began teaching private theory lessons with his models and writing papers that would eventually crystallize into the beginning of a book on the music of Touhou Project which is expected to be completed sometime in 2024.

Evan attributes his success to his supportive mother and his musical role models including his old piano teacher, Elenora; his undergraduate piano teacher, Professor Ingrid Clarfield; his composition teachers Professors Jay Kawarsky and Joel Phillips; and the formative composers from his childhood, Nobuo Uematsu, Koji Kondo, Hajime Wakai, Mahito Yakota, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.