Dr. Everett McCorvey
Founder and Director
On January 12, 2013 AfriClassical posted: Oregon Music News: January 18, 2013 "I Have a Dream Concert" tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a wonderful sight to behold. We Tweeted the title, which was immediately ReTweeted by American Spiritual Ensemble.
AfriClassical last featured Dr. Everett McCorvey and the American Spiritual on January 14, 2012: "American Spiritual Ensemble, Founded by Dr. Everett McCorvey, is on the Annual Winter Tour."
University of Kentucky Bio
Dr. Everett McCorvey
Degrees:
DMA University of Alabama 1989
MM University of Alabama 1981
BM University of Alabama 1979
At UK since: 1991
Everett McCorvey, tenor, is a native of Montgomery, Alabama. He
received his degrees from the University of Alabama, including a
Doctorate of Musical Arts. He has performed in many cities around the
world and theaters across the country, including the Metropolitan Opera,
the Kennedy Center, Aspen Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival,
Whitewater Opera Company, Radio City Music hall, Birmingham Opera
Theater, Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy, Queen Elizabeth Hall in
London, England, as well as performances throughout Spain, the Czech and
Slovac Republics, Austria, Japan, China, Brazil, Poland, Portugal and
Hungary.
He is tenor soloist on two CD recordings conducted by Maestro
Julius Williams, one entitled Symphonic Brotherhood featuring
the Bohuslave Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra performing the symphonic
works of African-American Composers released in the fall of 1994, and
one entitled The American Soloist featuring the Dvorak Symphony
in Prague, Czech Republic released the fall of 2004 highlighting new
American works. He has returned to the Czech Repbulic to perform with
the Bohuslave Martinu Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Kirk
Trevor as well as to the Slovac Republic. He has also appeared in
television movies and feature films including The Long Walk Home.
Dr. McCorvey’s operatic roles include Don Jose in Carmen, Ferrando in Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Ottavio inDon Giovanni, Fenton in Falstaff, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, Puck in La Grande Duchess de Gerolstein, and many others. Orchestra and Oratorio works include the Beethoven Symphony #9, Mendelssohn’sElijah, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Bach’s Mass in B Minor and the St. MatthewPassion, among others.
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