Host of ‘The WTF Bach Podcast,’ pianist Evan Shinners attended The Juilliard School where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. A devotee of the music of J.S. Bach, Evan is a clavichordist and studied harpsichord with Béatrice Martin. He is the founder of The Bach Store: temporary concert halls where Evan performs the complete keyboard works of Bach, for free, daily, in unused real estate spaces around the world.

Bach Stores were/are in: Manhattan in 2018 and 2019, The Thüringer Bachwochen in Germany in 2022 and 2024, Brighton, UK in 2025, and the Bach Festival of Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 2026.

His ambitious podcast dissects daunting subjects, such as the structure of The Art of Fugue, aimed at an audience of amateurs and non-professionals. His guests are among the most influential in current Bach thought: Brad Mehldau, Robert Hill, Chris Thile, Christoph Wolff, Joshua Rifkin, and others.

He was recently the first laureate of a Career Achievement Award from the Music Academy of the West in California. On May 17th, the first three of a projected twenty-four albums, covering in depth the entire scope of Bach’s solo keyboard works, will be released.

Mr. Shinners is a Yamaha Artist.