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DIVA TO DIVA: FROM ELLA TO ADELE
of times in Hello, Dolly! in two separate
Broadway productions.
Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School
of Music at Indiana University, is a
recipient of the 2015 Indiana Historical
Society Living Legends Award and holds
an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from
Franklin College in his home state of
Indiana. He has been a proud resident of
the Indianapolis community for over 15
years and, when not on the podium, you
can find Everly at home with his family,
which includes Max the wonder dog.
Jack Everly last appeared with the
BSO in October 2017, conducting
Cirque Goes Broadway.
Ann Hampton
Callaway 
Ann Hampton
Callaway is one of the
leading champions of
the Great American
Songbook, having made her mark as
a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist,
arranger, actress, educator, TV host,
producer and philanthropist.
Recently voted by Broadwayworld.com
as “Performer of the Year,” Callaway is a
born entertainer. Her unique singing style
blends jazz and traditional pop, making
her a mainstay in concert halls, theaters
and jazz clubs as well as in the recording
studio, on television and in film. She is
best known for her Tony®-nominated
performance in the hit Broadway musical
Swing! and for writing and singing the
theme song to the hit TV series The
Nanny. Callaway is a Platinum Award-
winning writer whose songs are featured
on seven of Barbra Streisand’s recent CDs.
The only composer to have collaborated
with Cole Porter, she has also written
songs with Carole King, Rolf Lovland
and Barbara Carroll, to name a few.
Callaway’s live performances showcase
her warmth, spontaneous wit and
passionate delivery of standards, jazz
classics and originals. She is one of
America’s most gifted improvisers, taking
words and phrases from her audiences
and creating songs on the spot, whether
alone at a piano or with a symphony
orchestra. Callaway has been a special
guest performer with Wynton Marsalis
and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra,
with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops
at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood and is
featured at many Carnegie Hall tributes.
She has sung with more than 40 of the
world’s top orchestras and big bands and
has performed for President Clinton
in Washington, D.C. and at President
Gorbachev’s Youth Peace Summit in
Moscow. Callaway performed with her
sister, Broadway star Liz Callaway, in their
award-winning show Sibling Revelry at
London’s Donmar Warehouse. Their act
“Boom!,” a critically acclaimed celebration
of the baby boomer hits of the 60s and 70s,
was recorded on PS Classics and debuted in
the top 25 on Billboard Jazz. Callaway was
featured in the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving
Parade telecast watched by 6 million people
singing the Emmy® Award-winning song
“Yes, Virginia.”
Callaway took the symphony world by
storm with her recent show “The Streisand
Songbook” which she premiered with the
Boston Pops and continues to tour with top
orchestras across the country.  Said Randall
Fleischer after conducting the show with
the San Francisco Symphony, “Ann’s
tribute to Streisand is a glorious evening
of great songs, brilliantly orchestrated and
sung magnificently.” After performing
the show at 54 Below, she garnered two
Broadwayworld.com Awards and the
2013 MAC Award for Show of the Year.
Recently, Callaway won the 2016 BWW
Cabaret Awards Best Jazz Vocalist category
in a landslide.
As a part of her mission to keep the
American Songbook thriving, she has
produced and hosted two TV specials
called “Singer’s Spotlight With Ann
Hampton Callaway” with guests Liza
Minnelli and Christine Ebersole for
WTTW National, which dovetails into
her nationally syndicated radio series
“This Is Cabaret,” which debuted in
August of 2016.
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Ann Hampton Callaway last
appeared with the BSO in January 2017,
performing in A Tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes,
Jack Everly, conductor.

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