Mark Evitts


Mark Evitts is an American composer, string arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Evitts has worked with such artists as David Guetta, Cheat Codes, Train, Blues Traveler, Jewel, Rodney Atkins, The Band Perry, Secondhand Serenade, Katharine McPhee, Bo Bice, Jaida Dreyer, We The Kings, among many others. Evitts also recorded on Joey + Rory's RIAA certified Gold selling album, "Hymns", which earned Evitts two GRAMMY winning certificates for string arranging and violin/viola performance, as well as working with producers Sam Hollander and Josh Edmondson on ten episodes of NBC's SMASH, including the Emmy nominated original song, "I Heard Your Voice In A Dream", and on 2015's Summer Forever soundtrack, distributed by Disney Music Group. Mark also arranged and recorded strings on the Cheat Codes track, "Shed a Light ".
Mark is a voting member of The Recording Academy. He has been an arranger, musician and music producer on several hit television shows, including The Bachelor, Nashville, Blood & Oil, the BBC documentary, "Love In A Day", Discovering Lucy Angel, SVT's award winner documentary series Jills veranda, as well as films such as Changeover, Summer Forever, and Finding Your Feet.
In addition to his original compositions and arranging, Mark is currently part of the band, St. Alban. The trio consists of Mark, Peter McVeigh of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Andy Dunlop of Glasgow, Scotland. Their self-titled debut album was BBC Radio's Album of the Week.

Early career

A Kentucky-native, Evitts began his classical music training at age twelve with the Concertmaster of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra and attended Mark O'Connor's Fiddle Camp throughout his teens. In 2006, Evitts began touring with the band Scarlet Kings until 2009. In 2010, Evitts ventured into film as the musical director and producer for the documentary Newport.

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Selected Discography

Selected Film and Television

Tours