Jack Everly is an American conductor and music arranger who serves as Principal Pops Conductor with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa, Canada) as well as Music Director for the Symphonic Pops Consortium. Born in Richmond, Indiana, Everly is known for his innovative approach to the pops genre. He appears as guest conductor with orchestras throughout North America and is a former conductor of the American Ballet Theatre.

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Career

A North American leader in symphonic pops, Jack Everly is Principal Pops Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He is widely known for his innovative approach to programs that have brought new audiences to the time-tested and beloved genre. In addition to his Indianapolis position, Maestro Everly is Principal Pops Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, Canada and the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra starting in 2009-2010. This season he makes his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Blossom Music Center and also appears as guest conductor in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Toronto and Detroit.

Maestro Everly is the Music Director of Yuletide Celebration , now a 23-year tradition. These theatrical symphonic holiday concerts are presented annually in December in Indianapolis and are seen by more than 40,000 concert-goers. Mr. Everly led the ISO in its first Pops recording, Yuletide Celebration, Volume One , that included three of his own arrangements.

Originally appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mr. Everly was conductor of the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years, where he served as Music Director. In addition to his ABT tenure, he has teamed with Marvin Hamlisch in Broadway shows that Mr. Hamlisch scored 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 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.

In 1998, Jack Everly created the Symphonic Pops Consortium serving as Music Director. The Consortium, based in Indianapolis and made up of five orchestras, produces a new theatrical pops program each season providing a superior quality artistic program for all. In the past seven years, more than 206 performances of SPC programs have taken place in 22 cities across the U.S. and Canada. This season’s world premiere will be a celebration of the music of Irving Berlin in June 2009. When not on the podium or arranging, Maestro Everly indulges in his love for films, Häagen-Dazs, and a pooch named Max.