In Their Words & Voices: Music Worcester Concert with Everett McCorvey

Everett McCorvey is a tenor soloist, impresario, conductor, and professor of voice. He is the founder and music director of the American Spiritual Ensemble, the director and executive producer of University of Kentucky Opera Theatre, president of Global Creative Connections, a production and management company for musical and theatrical events, and the artistic director of the National Chorale.  A native of Montgomery, Alabama, McCorvey is a graduate of the University of Alabama, where he received a doctorate in musical arts. He has performed at the Metropolitan Opera; Kennedy Center; Radio City Music Hall; Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy; Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England; and in over 23 countries.

McCorvey has served on the faculties of the New York State Summer School of the Arts, American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria, and Bay View Music Festival as co-opera conductor and co-director of the American Negro Spirituals Intensive Program. He holds position of the OperaLex Endowed Chair of Opera Studies and Professor of Voice at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky 

McCorvey is artist-in-residence for Music Worcester for 2026-27.