Terry Everson
“A trumpet player’s trumpet player,” in the words of one of his frequent collaborators, Terry Everson has performed at well over a dozen International Trumpet Guild Conferences since 1980. His first international acclaim occurred in 1988, when the ITG sponsored two major competitions on consecutive days: one specializing in Baroque/Classical, the other in Twentieth Century literature. Everson shocked the Guild by entering and winning both by unanimous juries, performing seven major concerti and sonatas from memory within 30 hours. Everson followed this up just over a year later as First Prize laureate of the 1990 Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition, again performing from memory a full recital and a concerto
with orchestra.
Hailed by the Boston Globe for his “dazzling, clarion brightness with elegant edges” and in the Boston Musical Intelligencer for “virtuosity and musicality that was simply stunning”, Terry Everson has performed and given masterclasses throughout the United States, as well as in Central America, Europe and Asia. He has premiered major solo works by composers Martin Amlin, Richard Cornell, John Davison, Stanley Friedman, Jan Krzywicki, Elena Roussanova Lucas, and Gary Ziek. He has released three complete recordings of numerous notable modern works for trumpet and piano, as well as single entries on discs devoted to the works of Davison, Krzywicki and Lisa Bielawa; he has also recorded as soloist with the New England Brass Band, the Lexington Brass Band and the Eastern Wind Symphony, and is featured in over six dozen CD releases as Principal Trumpet of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Boston University produced a CD of live performances with the BU Wind Ensemble in 2015 of works by Bruce Broughton, James Stephenson, Bernhard Heiden, and Robert Russell Bennett.
Mr. Everson is Professor of Trumpet at Boston University, appointed to the faculty in 1999; a master pedagogue, his work at BU was recognized with the University’s 2014 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. Under his guidance, the Boston University Trumpet Ensemble has received enthusiastic acclaim at multiple ITG Conference performances, including a raucous standing ovation in Minneapolis in 2023. His masterclasses have met with acclaim in schools such as Northwestern University, Rice University, Yale University, the University of North Texas, the University of Michigan, Florida State University, the New England Conservatory, the Royal College of Music (London), and music conservatories in Xi’an and Shenyang, China and Tokyo, Japan. He served on the adjudication panel of the 4 th International Trumpet Competition “Théo Charlier” in Namur, Belgium, and at the Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Competition at Western Michigan University in 2024.
Terry Everson’s annual Fourth of July performances as Principal Trumpet of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra are viewed by millions worldwide via broadcast and online, and he has been a featured soloist with the orchestra on multiple tours. In 2022 he performed as Guest Principal Trumpet in Gershwin’s Concerto in F and Ellington’s Harlem with the Czech Philharmonic in Prague under the baton of Keith Lockhart. Equally at home in any musical style in front of any ensemble, he has also performed as a soloist with the Costa Rica National Symphony Brass & Percussion, the U.S. Army Band (“Pershing’s Own”), the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Peninsula Music Festival, the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Lawton Philharmonic, the Tanglewood Young Artists Wind Ensemble, the Triangle Brass Band and Youth Brass Band, the Brass Band of Columbus, the New England Brass Band, the Lexington Brass Band, and numerous college and high school wind ensembles.
In 2023, Mr. Everson retired from three diverse roles, completing 2 years as Music Director of the New England Brass Band, 16 years on the Executive Board of the (USA) National Trumpet Competition, and 25 seasons as Principal Trumpet of the Peninsula Music Festival.
Terry Everson is an Artist/Clinician for S.E. Shires Trumpets of Holliston, MA, USA, and performs on mouthpieces designed by Pickett Brass.