Jack Everly Click here for photographs Download Mr. Everly's biography (MS Word) 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.