In the early 1980s Evans played in Great White Noise with
Michael Sheridan and formed the group Women and Children First, which included
Jamie Fielding, Steve Elphick,
Indra Lesmana and
Tony Buck. Evans composed the music for the 1999 radio drama
Testimony: The Legend of Charlie Parker, which showcased the poetry of
Yusef Komunyakaa, and was broadcast on ABC's Soundstage FM. In 2008 she delivered the 10th Annual
Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address. At the
APRA Music Awards of 2013, her composition
Meetings at the Table of Time performed by members of the Australian Art Orchestra and the Sruthi Laya Ensemble won Performance of the Year and was nominated for Work of the Year – Jazz. In 2014 she was awarded a PhD from
Macquarie University, Australia, for practice-based research in Carnatic Jazz Intercultural music. She also received a
Churchill Fellowship to visit India in 2014 and began to collaborate with Aneesh Pradhan and
Shubha Mudgal. She is currently a lecturer in Jazz at the
University of New South Wales. She leads the Sandy Evans Trio (with Brett Hirst (double bass) and Toby Hall (drums) and Sextet, and co-leads the jazz and improvisational ensembles Clarion Fracture Zone and GEST8. As a performer, she is also a member of Mara!, The catholics, the
Australian Art Orchestra,
Ten Part Invention, and austraLYSIS, among other ensembles. In 2023 Evans established the Evans Robson Quartet with both Sandy Evans and Andrew Robson on saxophone with Brett Hirst on bass and Hamish Stuart on drums. In 2025 they released an album called Zenith. ==Recordings==