American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609
United States
In a special musical performance in Antiquarian Hall, Everett McCorvey, Music Worcester's artist-in-residence, and other soloists will sing spirituals from AAS's historic sheet music collection. The program will include a re-creation of parts of an 1880’s concert in Worcester by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African-American a cappella ensemble of students at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was first organized in 1871 to tour and raise funds for the university. Their nineteenth-century tours took them to cities around the country and abroad, and included performances for President Ulysses Grant and Queen Victoria.
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.