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Jack
Everly
August
2 & 14, 2008
Jack Everly
is a leader in Symphonic Pops throughout North America. He is
the Principal Pops Conductor with the Baltimore, Indianapolis,
and National Arts Centre (Ottawa) Symphony Orchestras as well
as Music Director for the Symphonic Pops Consortium. In addition
to his duties with those orchestras, this season he has conducting
engagements with the Pittsburgh, Nashville, National, Toronto,
and Dallas Symphony Orchestras.
Maestro Everly
is also the Music Director of A YULETIDE CELEBRATION. The theatrical
symphonic holiday production, presented annually by the Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra, is seen by over 40,000 concert goers. Last
season, Mr. Everly led the ISO for a recording A Yuletide Celebration,
Volume One, that included three of his own arrangements. The
recording has proven to be a fabulous success, breaking sales
records.
Originally appointed
by Artistic Director Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mr. Everly conducted
thousands of performances and dozens of world premieres for American
Ballet Theatre, where he served as Music Director. Mr. Everly
was not only at the helm for their annual season at Lincoln Center's
Metropolitan Opera House, but also for over 50 international
tours with the famed company. In addition to his ABT tenure,
he has teamed with Marvin Hamlisch in shows that Mr. Hamlisch
composed including, The Goodbye Girl, They're Playing Our Song,
and A Chorus Line. He conducted Carol Channing hundreds of times
in Hello, Dolly! in two separate Broadway productions.
In television
and film, Jack Everly has appeared on In Performance at the White
House and conducted the songs for Disney's animated classic The
Hunchback of Notre Dame. He led the orchestra for the national
PBS telecast of the American Ballet Theatre's Romeo and Juliet,
starring Natalia Makarova. He has been music director on numerous
Broadway cast recordings, and conducted the critically praised,
Everything's Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures of Broadway's
Jule Styne. A CD released in July 2005, In The Presence, features
tenor Daniel Rodriguez with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
of Prague conducted by Mr. Everly. Other great talents he has
conducted include Ella Fitzgerald, Pinchas Zukerman, Sylvia McNair,
John Raitt, Sandi Patty, Chris Botti, Marilyn Horne, Martin Short,
and Bernadette Peters.
In 1998, Jack
Everly was instrumental in creating the Symphonic Pops Consortium
lending his talent as Music Director. The Consortium, based in
Indianapolis and made up of major U.S. Orchestras, produces a
new theatrical pops program each season that is then available
for other orchestras providing a superior quality artistic program
for all. When not on the podium or arranging and orchestrating,
Maestro Everly indulges in his love for films, Haagen-Dazs, and
a pooch named Max. |
