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
2011-2012
Saxophones
Andrew Katzenstein '13, alto
Benjamin Sobel '15, alto
Paul Farber '13, tenor
Aaron Blumenthal '15, tenor
Jack Davison '14, baritone
Trumpets
Benjamin Hirsch '13
Nikhil Mehra '14
Troy Schilperoort '12
Trombones
Edward Huttlin 'PhD
Tobias Estime '13
Rhythm Section
Andrew Kennard '13, piano
Samuel Fisher '15, bass
Kevin McNamara '12, drums
Staff
Andrew Kennard '12, Manager
Troy Schilperoort '12, Treasurer
Harvard Sunday Band
2010-2011
Saxophones
James Ramsey '15, alto
George Ko '15, alto
Opetoritse Adefolalu '14, tenor
Samuel Moore, '15 tenor
Jack Davison '14, baritone
Trumpets
Alexander Breinin '12
Louis Coppersmith '14
Jack Greenberg '13
Aaron Gyde '14
Trombones
Luke Anderson '14
Tobias Estime '13
Veronica Gloria '15
Rhythm Section
Andrew Chow '14, piano
Derek Robins '13, piano
Farid Muhd, Grad
Brad Rose '14, drums
Staff
Andrew Chow '14, Manager