Evie Atkin (she/her) is a composer, musical director, and performer based in London.
As a composer, she has worked with ensembles such as BBC Concert Orchestra, ORA Singers and Exaudi, as well as soloists such as clarinettist Heather Roche and pianist Ben Smith. Her piece What Were You Wearing?, which was written in response to the Mary Simmerling poem of the same name, won the 2020 BBC Young Composer award.
Evie’s music contains mesmerising, kaleidoscopic colours and driving rhythms that trip over themselves to punctuate lush textures that shimmer and shine. She paints rich, yet whimsical, landscapes that always feel familiar even at their most abstract moments and has been described by John Rutter as ‘someone who has a real feeling for sonority’. She studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Julian Phillips, Laurence Crane and Hollie Harding and was generously supported by the Guildhall Scholarship Fund.
Evie has collaborated extensively with British Youth Music Theatre as both a composer and a musical director and was delighted to be commissioned to write Choreomania, a new musical which premiered at the Birmingham Hippodrome in August 2025.
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