Biographical Sketches

Thomas Everett

Guest Conductor

Since his appointment to the Harvard faculty in 1971, Harvard University Band Director Thomas G. Everett has founded and directed the Harvard Wind Ensemble, the Harvard Jazz Band and the Harvard Summer Pops Band. A graduate of Ithaca College, he has held positions at Phillips Academy, Brown University and the New England Conservatory. As a noted bass trombonist, he has performed with the Bolshoi Ballet, the Boston Pops, the Portland (Maine) Symphony, and the jazz bands of Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie and Ray Charles. Mr. Everett has been a conductor, adjudicator and soloist throughout the United States, Europe and the former Soviet Union. He was the conductor for jazz trombonist J. J. Johnson’s album, The Brass Orchestra (Verve, 1997), which was nominated for three Grammy Awards.

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