Grant Harville
Winner of the London Conducting Masterclass Competition and the Agatha C. Church Conducting Award, Grant Harville is Music Director and Conductor for the Great Falls Symphony Association and, for the 2019-20 season, Artistic Director of the Bozeman Symphony.
Harville has served as Associate Conductor of the Georgia Symphony, Orchestra Director at Ripon College, and Music Director for multiple Madison Savoyards productions. His guest conducting appearances include the Fraser Lyric Opera, Bozeman Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Georgia Symphony, Great Falls Symphony, Oistrach Symphony, and the Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City.
Harville’s diverse musical background includes experience as a tubist, vocalist, violist, and composer. He has a number of tuba competition victories to his credit, including First Prize in the Leonard Falcone International Solo Tuba competition and winner of the University of Michigan Concerto Competition, performing a concerto of his own composition. As tenor with the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, he was selected to perform as soloist with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall. His compositions have been performed by numerous ensembles and soloists throughout the US: his Sonata for tuba and piano was a finalist for the Harvey G. Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition, and he was awarded a grant to conduct his “Steampunk” Partita at the National Association of Music Educators Northwest Division Conference.
Harville pursued his music studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Michigan. His principal teachers and mentors include James Smith, Markand Thakar, Victor Yampolsky, Kenneth Kiesler, Michael Haithcock, David Becker, John Stevens, and Fritz Kaenzig.