Thomas G. Everett
Tom Everett, Director of Bands at Harvard and Jazz Advisor to the Office for the Arts, founded jazz programs at Harvard in 1971. He taught the first jazz course for academic credit at Harvard in 1972. He has also taught at the New England Conservatory, Brown University, the International Trombone Workshop, Indiana University Summer School, and the Franz Liszt Academy (Budapest).
He was the recipient of the 2008 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award presented to a nationally recognized educator. As a bass trombonist, Mr. Everett performed with the Bolshoi Ballet, Boston Ballet, Boston Pops, and Boston Opera Orchestras, the Cantata Singers, and the jazz bands of Clark Terry, Phil Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and Ray Charles.
Everett conducted on J.J. Johnson's 1996 CD, The Brass Orchestra (Verve), which was nominated for three Grammy Awards. He has served as assistant to jazz composers/historians Andre´ Hodeir and John Lewis and has been published in The Instrumentalist, Black Perspectives in Music, Cadence, Journal of Jazz Studies, The Music Educators National Journal, Brass Bulletin, The College Band Directors’ National Association Journal, The Journal of the International Trombone Association and Massachusetts Music News.
A charter member of the International Association of Jazz Educators, Everett is a founder and first president of the International Trombone Association and past president of the New England College Band Association. He has been a panelist for the New England Foundation for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council and coordinates the Harvard Club of Boston’s Annual Jazz Combo Competition. He holds degrees from Ithaca College and studied privately at the Eastman School of Music.
Mark E. Olson
Mark Olson, Assistant Director of Bands at Harvard University is the conductor of the Sunday Jazz Ensemble, The Wind Ensemble, works with the Harvard University Band and assists with the administration of the Band program. Olson earned degrees from Concordia College (B.M. Music Eduations) and the University of Minnesota (M.A. Music Education). His conducting teachers have included Craig Kirchhoff and J. Robert Hanson
Harvard Monday Band
2008-2009
Saxophones
Noah Nathan '09, alto
Maxwell Nwaru, Jr. '10, alto
Jake Cohen '09, tenor
Alex Rezzo '11, tenor/clarinet
Kristen Pagan '10, baritone
Trumpets
Katherine Hill '09
Richard Lee '11
Scott McKinney '09
Allison Rosenberg '12
Will Skinner '09
Troy Schilperoort '12
Trombones
Jason Brodsky '09
Ken Hammond '12
Ben Shanley
Rhythm Section
Michael Schachter '09, piano
Jake McNulty '11, guitar
Keith Doelling '11, bass
Christopher Krogslund '09, drums
Staff
Alex Rezzo '11, Manager
Katherine Hill '09, Treasurer
Harvard Sunday Band
2008-2009
Saxophones
Joshua Bolduc '11, alto
James Feeney '11, alto
Greg Dyer '09, tenor
Eva Ghirmai '11, tenor
Aryeh Gold-Parker '12, baritone
Trumpets
Troy Schilperoot '12
Trombones
John Batter '11
Jason Brodsky '09
Rhythm Section
Greg Ciraulo '09, piano
Chase Carpenter '12, guitar
Stu Ford '12, bass (Berklee)
Kevin McNamara, drums
Staff
Greg Ciraulo '09, Manager