BETH EVERETT is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Mississippi College where she conducts the MC Singers and Choctaw Chorus. She is also the Artistic Director of The Mississippi Chorus and the Interim Choir Director at First Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Everett holds degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi, Southern Methodist University, and Palm Beach Atlantic University.

In addition to her love for choral music, Dr. Everett has an extensive list of opera and musical theater productions in her conducting repertoire ranging from Carmen to A Chorus Line, from Godspell to Carousel and Into the Woods.  She has prepared choruses for Opera Mississippi, Meadows Opera Theater, and Southern Opera and Musical Theater productions including Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Kurt Weill's Street Scene, and Richard Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. For the past two summers, Dr. Everett served as music director for Zilker Theatre Productions in Austin, Texas where the most recent production of Matilda won Best Musical in the Broadway World Austin Awards.

Dr. Everett spent several years as musical director and chorus master with the Natchez Festival of Music and conducted performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance and Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. She conducted Show Boat in 2016 in celebration of the tricentennial of the city of Natchez, Mississippi.

Dr. Everett remains active as a singer and regularly performs the mezzo soprano solos for such major choral works as Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, Mozart's Requiem, and Mendelssohn's Elijah.