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'''Beverly Everett, Conductor, organist, composer Beverly Everett (b.1970) is currently the Music Director of the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra and the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra. She is adjunct professor of Organ at the University of Mary in Bismarck. Beverly was born in 1970 to Emily Jayne Hays Everett and John Nathan Everett. Her maternal grandparents were Finis C. and Nellie Ruth Hays of Waxahachie, TX. Beverly grew up in Waxahachie and graduated from Waxahachie High School in 1988 where she was Salutatorian of her graduating class. An active member of the music ministry of First Baptist Church, Waxahachie, Beverly was in youth choir, handbell choir, and was an organ student of James Steel. She studied piano with Wilma Dorsey from 1976-1988 and participated in many piano competitions and recitals. She received the Larkin scholarship and numerous other music scholarships to attend Baylor University as an organ performance major, studying with Dr. Joyce Jones. During her time at Baylor, Beverly studied conducting and felt called to pursue orchestral conducting as her career. She became a student of Stephen Heyde, studied violin, conducting and orchestration, and became principal pianist of the Baylor Symphony. She was the Presser Foundation Scholar, given to the outstanding senior in the School of Music. After graduating from Baylor with her Bachelors, Beverly studied for one semester with Anshel Brusilow at the University of North Texas before returning to Baylor to pursue a Masters of Conducting with Stephen Heyde. She attended the prestigious Aspen Music Festival in 1996 and 1997, studying with Murry Sidlin. In the 1996-1997 academic year, she taught orchestra, 7-12th grade in Midland, TX and left that position to pursue a Doctorate at the University of Iowa, where she studied conducting with William LaRue Jones and organ with Delbert Disselhorst. Everett also served as pianist/organist at two consecutive American String Teachers International Workshops in Lyon, France, and Glasgow, Scotland in 1993 and 1994. While at Iowa, Beverly was also organist at Wesley United Methodist Church, Muscatine and was Assistant Conductor of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony and founder and Music Director of the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra. In 2004 she became Music Director of the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, and in 2008, of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony. Everett has maintained an active concert career as an organist, and as a guest conductor and clinician. As a composer, Everett composed the sound tracks to two documentary films, "The Crisis of Confidence" and "Mr. Bubble: the Harold Schafer Story." Her orchestral work "Fanfare for Bemidji" was premiered November 11, 2018 by the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra. Awards include: McKnight Fellowship; Friend of the Arts; American Prize for Education; Cottey College Distinguished Speaker; Bismarck 40 under 40; Waxahachie Fine Arts Hall of Fame. She currently makes her home in Bismarck, ND and has two cats, Maestro and Bravo. In addition to music, Dr. Everett is an avid runner and triathlete. '''