Evans Koçja is a composer of contemporary classical music based in Brussels. His musical journey began as an autodidact, writing music from a young age. While initially trained as an instrumentalist, his passion for composition led him to pursue formal studies. He embarked on his musical education by studying Composition at the University of Arts in Tirana, followed by further studies at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, where he studied Music Writing, Composition, Conducting, and Music Technology.
He commenced his formal musical training on classical guitar at the age of 11, expanding his skills through self-guided exploration of other instruments, as well as composition, harmony, and orchestration. Throughout this period, he showcased his talents as a classical guitarist, performing in concerts and festivals, while simultaneously crafting his first compositions for ensembles, solo performances, orchestra, concert band, including incidental music for theatre and melodramas.
Although particularly drawn to a realm between 'pure' sound, noise and silence, and his practice often informed by spectral techniques, his oeuvre traverses diverse musical facets, often blending different stylistic and aesthetic elements. Koçja’s talent has been recognised with numerous accolades. He is a two-time winner of the First Prize of the André Charlier International Piano Composition Competition and Ars Musica (2021, Belgium) and was recently awarded the Annarosa Taddei Prize in Composition by the International Competition Annarosa Taddei (2024, Rome). So far he has worked and collaborated with esteemed orchestras and ensembles, including the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Divertimento Ensemble, FontanaMix Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, and PPCM Graz Ensemble.
His body of work reflects an ongoing endeavour to cultivate his unique artistic language, continually striving to unearth the inner voice of the artist. This tireless quest for musical authenticity has propelled Koçja to explore myriad facets of music, culminating in the development of a distinctive personal style.
About the music
Though specially attracted to the world of spectral music, his works explore different aspects of it, sometimes combining different techniques, concepts, etc., and show a continuous effort in finding his own language, seeking that inner voice of the restless composer.
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