JG Everest

Composer / Director / Historian JG Everest is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersections of engagement, ecology, history, and the emerging field of NeuroArts through a variety of collaborative place-making practices. He creates site-specific performance installations that connect the histories, ecology, and cultures of places and communities, using spatial sound design as an integral compositional element. He has worked as music director and sound designer, as well as performer for many projects and performing ensembles, including over a decade each with Catalyst Dance and Roma di Luna. He regularly designs and leads integrative workshops and classes that connect participants to community, their own creativity, and the natural world, through a variety of disciplines and practices. He has brought his immersive, site-specific "Sound Garden" installations to outdoors sites in the UK, Canada, and across the USA. He was a 2019 McKnight Artist Composer Fellow, and MNPAiR Artist in Residence at Wild River State Park 2024-25.