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Everett McCorvey

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Address: School of Music, 103 Koinonia House, 412 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40508

Phone: (859) 257-9331

Email Address: everett.mccorvey@uky.edu

Length of Service on the Board: July 1 2008-present, elected faculty representative

Term Expires: June 30, 2011

Offices/Positions Held on the Board: Member, academic affairs committee; Member, university relations committee.

Everett McCorvey was elected as a faculty representative to the board in 2008. He was awarded a Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Alabama. He is Director of Opera at the University of Kentucky and is also the holder of the Lexington Opera Society Endowed Chair in Opera Studies. Dr. McCorvey is vice-chairman of the Kentucky Arts Council for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He also serves on the board of the National Association of State Arts Agencies and the Alltech World Equestrian Games Federation Board which will produce the 2010 Alltech World Equestrian Games. He was chosen by the Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education as the Recipient of the 1998 Acorn Award. He is also the recipient of an outstanding faculty award from the UK Lyman T. Johnson Alumni Association and was selected to receive the Outstanding Alumni Award in the Arts from the Society for the Fine Arts at the University of Alabama. Dr. McCorvey has performed in many cities around the world and theaters across the country and the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Kennedy Center, Aspen Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Whitewater Opera Company, Radio City Music Hall, Birmingham Opera Theater, Teatro Comunale in Florence, Italy, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England, as well as having given performances throughout Spain, the Czech and Solvac Republics, Austria, Japan, China, Brazil, Poland, Portugal, and Hungary. He is the founder and Music Director of the American Spiritual Ensemble.