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Dr. Beverly Everett
Beverly was the featured cover story of the "Northwoods Woman" publication in March/April of 2009, and will be featured also in the cover story in the July 2009 edition of Bismarck's "The Inspirational Woman." She has been a featured guest on both Minnesota Public Radio and a central Iowa news station, being interviewed specifically about being a woman in the field of orchestral conducting. Dr. Everett received a 2008 Individual Artist Grants through the Region 2 Arts Council of Minnesota to travel to Berlin, Germany where she had a special invitation to observe Sir Simon Rattle in rehearsals of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic. This was the fifth time Everett had been welcomed to observe the Berlin Philharmonic and participate in a special study of the Zukunft Education projects there. Everett is regarded as a strong, inspiring conductor in many genres. She has already conducted four prominent premieres in her career and is passionately committed to working with composers and commissioning projects. In 2005 Everett was invited back to the Hot Springs Music Festival where she had been an apprentice, to conduct the world premiere of the opera “Cio Cio San,” and adaptation of Madame Butterfly by Brad Carroll and Martin Platt. In April of 2009 she conducted the premiere of “Sacred Vows,” a commissioned work by Libby Larsen, celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Bemidji Symphony. Other premieres Everett has conducted include the orchestral premiere of “Loss of Breath,” a song cycle by Ralph Johnson, “Fanfare for the New Renaissance,” a brass fanfare by Carol Worthey, and this November will conduct the premier of “Effloressence,” an orchestral work by Joseph Adams.
Maestra Everett is frequently invited back to orchestras where she has worked or studied previously. In 1999 she was invited back to Baylor University to conduct a special organ concerto concert, and has an invitation to return to Baylor on March 25, 2010. She returned to Waterloo Cedar Falls in the fall of 2002 to conduct their family concert with “Tales and Scales,” and to the Hot Springs Music Festival in 2005 to conduct the Cio Cio San Premiere. She conducted on a subscription concert with the Des Moines Symphony as part of apprentice studies with that orchestra, and participated for two seasons conducting the chamber group “Legacy,” comprised of principal musicians of the Des Moines Symphony. |
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