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Upcoming Events

  • AES Indiana Yuletide Celebration | Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
    AES Indiana Yuletide Celebration | Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Dec 06
    Hilbert Circle Theatre
    Dec 06, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
    Dec 06, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
  • The Princess Bride in Concert | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
    The Princess Bride in Concert | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
    Fri, Jan 03
    The Music Center at Strathmore
    Jan 03, 2025, 7:30 PM
    Jan 03, 2025, 7:30 PM
  • The Princess Bride in Concert | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
    The Princess Bride in Concert | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
    Multiple Dates
    Sat, Jan 04
    Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
    Jan 04, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
    Jan 04, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Full Length Biography

Jack Everly is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic (Artis-Naples), and the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa). He previously served as Principal Pops Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seventeen seasons. He has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony, and has made numerous appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center.​

 

Celebrating his 14th year as Music Director of the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth on PBS, Maestro Everly proudly leads the National Symphony Orchestra in these patriotic celebrations on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. These concerts attract hundreds of thousands of attendees on the lawn and the broadcasts reach millions of viewers and are some of the very highest-rated programming on PBS television.​

 

Maestro Everly is the also Music Director of the AES Indiana Yuletide Celebration, now a 30+ year tradition. He led the ISO in its first Pops recording, Yuletide Celebration: Volume One, which included three of his own orchestrations. Some of his other recordings include In The Presence featuring the Czech Philharmonic and Daniel Rodriguez, Sandi Patty’s Broadway Stories, the soundtrack to Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Everything's Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures Of Jule Styne.​

 

Originally appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maestro Everly was conductor of the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years, where he served as Music Director. In addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed with Marvin Hamlisch on Broadway shows that Mr. Hamlisch scored. He conducted Carol Channing hundreds of times in Hello, Dolly! in two separate Broadway productions.​

 

Maestro Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music in 2021 from his alma mater. In addition, he is a recipient of the 2023 Sagamore of the Wabash Award - the State of Indiana's highest honor, a 2015 Indiana Historical Society Living Legends Award, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin College in his home state of Indiana. He is a proud resident of the Indianapolis community and when not on the podium you can find Maestro Everly at home with his family.

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Watch Maestro Jack Everly conduct "The 1812 Overture" with the National Symphony Orchestra from A Capitol Fourth 2024.
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