Maestro Evans Haile - Celebrating 20 years as Musical Director and Conductor
Evans Haile has received international acclaim as a Host/Producer, Conductor and Performer in a variety of communication fields.
Evans is currently the Executive Director of the award winning York Theatre Company in New York City, winner of The Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards. He is the General Director of Opera North in NH where he has built a partnership with the National Park Service in creating a new national Park for the Arts and Summer Fest at historic “Blow Me Down Farm”.
He is responsible for reopening and acting as Producing Artistic Director of the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts and was Producing Artistic Director of the historic Cape Playhouse in Massachusetts for15 years.
He recently completed a highly successful tour of Australia telling his stories of humor with music.
International achievements include supervising and conducting the Australian premiere of Villa Lobos’ Magdalena and multiple concert tours of Russia. While in Russia he performed the European premiere of Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra. He was a regular Guest Conductor of the Orchestra of the Deutsche Opera in Germany for five years, and the Boston POPS for many years. American Orchestras and Opera Companies have included Seattle, Milwaukee, Detroit, Miami, Boston, Pacific Symphony, Tulsa, Baltimore, New Jersey, and Grant Park to name a few.
Mr. Haile assisted legendary French conductor Manuel Rosenthal on Wagner’s Ring Cycle and was Artistic Advisor and Dramaturge to the Florida Grand Opera, (Miami).
At Lincoln Center, he produced and conducted Villa-Lobos’ Magdalena (recorded for CBS Masterworks), Rodgers & Hart’s Babes in Arms (recorded for New World Records), and Cole Porter’s Fifty Million Frenchmen (named Best Recording of the Year by USA Today). His performing edition of Fifty Million Frenchmen has been produced in London, Paris, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and was optioned for production on Broadway. His acclaimed production of Gershwin and Kaufman’s Of Thee I Sing, utilizing the original 1932 orchestrations, was videotaped for Lincoln Center’s Library of the Performing Arts.
Mr. Haile toured 50 cities in his sold out Haile to America Tour, hosting and performing an irreverent celebration of 100 years of American Popular Music.
He produced and hosted “A Song for....” series on National Public Radio heard on over 200 stations.
Mr. Haile has been profiled on “CBS Sunday Morning,” produced the Lincoln Center Tribute to American Express and co-founded the award winning New Amsterdam Theater Company, at New York’s Town Hall.
Mr. Haile is very proud to have been a beneficiary of the National Endowment of the Arts.
Evans is currently the Executive Director of the award winning York Theatre Company in New York City, winner of The Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards. He is the General Director of Opera North in NH where he has built a partnership with the National Park Service in creating a new national Park for the Arts and Summer Fest at historic “Blow Me Down Farm”.
He is responsible for reopening and acting as Producing Artistic Director of the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts and was Producing Artistic Director of the historic Cape Playhouse in Massachusetts for15 years.
He recently completed a highly successful tour of Australia telling his stories of humor with music.
International achievements include supervising and conducting the Australian premiere of Villa Lobos’ Magdalena and multiple concert tours of Russia. While in Russia he performed the European premiere of Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra. He was a regular Guest Conductor of the Orchestra of the Deutsche Opera in Germany for five years, and the Boston POPS for many years. American Orchestras and Opera Companies have included Seattle, Milwaukee, Detroit, Miami, Boston, Pacific Symphony, Tulsa, Baltimore, New Jersey, and Grant Park to name a few.
Mr. Haile assisted legendary French conductor Manuel Rosenthal on Wagner’s Ring Cycle and was Artistic Advisor and Dramaturge to the Florida Grand Opera, (Miami).
At Lincoln Center, he produced and conducted Villa-Lobos’ Magdalena (recorded for CBS Masterworks), Rodgers & Hart’s Babes in Arms (recorded for New World Records), and Cole Porter’s Fifty Million Frenchmen (named Best Recording of the Year by USA Today). His performing edition of Fifty Million Frenchmen has been produced in London, Paris, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and was optioned for production on Broadway. His acclaimed production of Gershwin and Kaufman’s Of Thee I Sing, utilizing the original 1932 orchestrations, was videotaped for Lincoln Center’s Library of the Performing Arts.
Mr. Haile toured 50 cities in his sold out Haile to America Tour, hosting and performing an irreverent celebration of 100 years of American Popular Music.
He produced and hosted “A Song for....” series on National Public Radio heard on over 200 stations.
Mr. Haile has been profiled on “CBS Sunday Morning,” produced the Lincoln Center Tribute to American Express and co-founded the award winning New Amsterdam Theater Company, at New York’s Town Hall.
Mr. Haile is very proud to have been a beneficiary of the National Endowment of the Arts.