Harville, Grant

Title
Adjunct Faculty in Music
Office:
Jenson-Noble 193
Phone:
+1-563-387-1378
Email:
Degree:
M.M., University of Michigan
Interests:
Tuba, euphonium, brass ensemble
Grant Harville received his Bachelor of Music degree in tuba performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught privately via the Student Teaching Division and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.  He also became a member of Phi Kappa Phi and received that organization’s Zillman Summer Fellowship in 2002.   He received his Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, where he was director of the University of Michigan Euphonium/Tuba Ensemble and recipient of the Earl V. Moore Award from the School of Music.

Harville received First Prize at the 2003 Leonard Falcone International Solo Tuba Competition as well as at the 2005 Potomac Music Festival Quartet Competition with the University of Michigan Tuba Quartet.  In 2004, he joined the American Wind Symphony Orchestra and taught tuba and euphonium as part of its educational outreach programs.  

Also an avid composer, Harville won the University of Michigan’s 2004 Concerto Competition, performing a concerto of his own composition.  His Sonata for tuba and piano was a finalist for the Harvey G. Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition.  He has written for a wide variety of instrumentations, and his works have been performed by the United States Armed Forces Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, the First Baptist Church of Ann Arbor Sanctuary Choir, the Fresh Cut Brass, and numerous other soloists and chamber ensembles.