Evan Harlan (accordion, composer) has recorded and performed internationally with several jazz and "world music" ensembles including Dave Douglas, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and the Von Trapp Singers. His own quartet, Andromeda, was the house band for the American Repertory Theater's production of Snow in June in 2003. From 1995-2000, Mr. Harlan's group Excelsior played unorthodox arrangements of 20th century composers' works. Their CD Declassified was featured on WGBH radio's internationally distributed Art of the States, WGBH/BBC's The World, and WBUR's The Connection and Here & Now. Mr. Harlan is the recipient of a 2001 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Music Composition; he has scored numerous works for film, dance and theater. In addition he has played on the soundtracks of Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us and John Sayles' Lone Star. In November of 2001 he performed in the orchestra with Luciano Pavarotti at the Fleet Center in Boston, and in February 2002 was featured in Hovanhess' Rubaiyat and Hindemith's Kammermusik 1.