Meet our conductor

Darren Everhart joined Settle Orchestra as Conductor and Musical Director in the summer of 2007.

Conductor and Musical
Director, Darren Everhart

Born in Brooklyn, Darren was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, studying composition with Alan Ridout. At the same time he started his conducting training with Harry Newstone at the University of Kent.

Darren read music at Cambridge University, conducting the Girton College Choir and many choral and orchestral concerts for the Music Society. He won the Rima Alamuddin prize for composition, awarded by Girton College in memory of the Lebanese author. His post-graduate studies were in orchestral conducting at the University of Florence with maestro Piero Belugi.

Following similar positions at Cranford House School in Oxfordshire and Pangbourne College in Berkshire, Darren is now the Director of Music at Giggleswick School. For over ten years, he also worked as the Organist and Choirmaster at Wallingford Parish Church, undertaking many additional overseas tours and numerous concerts.

Darren's conducting roles have included Didcot Choral Society, Pangbourne Choral Society, Cranford Choral Society and Opera Exchange. He was also founder and conductor of the Chameleon Chamber Orchestra, which was committed to the promotion of 20th century orchestral works. As well as Settle Orchestra, Darren currently conducts Giggleswick Choral Society.

He is also a composer and arranger and lives in Giggleswick with his wife and two children.