Grant Harville

CHORAL TEACHING ARTIST

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Grant Harville is Associate Conductor and Creative Director of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra and Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra. He comes to the Atlanta area from Wisconsin, where he was Orchestra Director at Ripon College and a doctoral candidate in orchestral conducting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some of his recent activity includes guest conducting appearances with the Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City and the Oistrach Symphony (Chicago, IL), serving as Music Director of the Madison Savoyards production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, conducting two performances (including the premiere) of David Dies’s opera Hills Like White Elephants, and conducting at the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium Convention. In 2008, he was accorded the Richard C. and Agatha Church Memorial Conducting Award. He has received supplemental training at the Omaha Symphony Conductors Workshop, the DePaul University Conductors Workshop, and the Conductors Institute of South Carolina.

As a tubist, Harville has a number of competition victories to his credit, including the University of Michigan Concerto Competition (performing a concerto of his own composition), First Prize in the Leonard Falcone International Solo Tuba competition, and First Prize in the Potomac International Tuba/Euphonium Festival Quartet Competition as member of the University of Michigan Tuba/Euphonium Quartet. He served as Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium and director of the tuba/euphonium ensemble at Luther College (Decorah, IA) from 2006 to 2010. Also an avid composer, Harville has written works which have been performed by the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, the United States Armed Forces Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble, and the First Baptist Church of Ann Arbor Sanctuary Choir, in addition to other soloists and chamber ensembles. His Sonata for tuba and piano was a finalist for the Harvey G. Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition. Harville’s vocal credits include solo tenor performances with the Isthmus Vocal Ensemble, the Birmingham First Chamber Choir, the GSO Chorus and several of the choirs at the University of Michigan. He has additionally served as tenor soloist and section leader at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church (Atlanta), First Baptist Church (Ann Arbor, MI), Christ Presbyterian Church (Madison, Wisconsin).

Harville received his Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the Earl V. Moore Award in Music, given to “graduating students who have demonstrated a capacity for great accomplishment within their chosen field of study.” He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was granted the Howard Zinman Fellowship from Phi Kappa Phi and inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.