Sandy Evans

Sandy Evans is an award-winning Australian jazz composer, saxophonist, and teacher active from 1982.

In the 1980s Evans played in the group Women and Children First. Later she was a member of the Sydney band Ten Part Invention.

Evans composed the music for the 1999 radio drama Testimony: The Legend of Charlie Parker, which showcased the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa, and was broadcast on ABC's Soundstage FM.

She delivered the 10th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address in 2008 and received an Order of Australia in 2010 for services to music. She has been described by ABC Radio National's "Inside Sleeve" program as Australia's leading female jazz musician. At the APRA Music Awards of 2013, her composition Meetings at the Table of Time performed by members of the Australian Art Orchestra and the Sruthi Laya Ensemble won Performance of the Year and was nominated for Work of the Year – Jazz.

Evans has performed on more than 30 albums. Her album When the Sky Cries Rainbows was awarded Best Independent Jazz album at the 2011 Jägermeister Independent Music Awards.

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