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Congratulations
to Pat Miller, chair, and the members of the conductor search committee, Greg
Briggs, Gay Lee Ludwig-Bonney, Rene Burrow, Steve Adams, Marcus
Dowty and June McDonald. Following are the bios for the
three finalists and the alternate.
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Conductor Search Finalists
Grant
Harville is Orchestra Director at Ripon
College in Ripon Wisconsin. After earning a B.M. in Tuba
Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed an M.M. in
the same area of study at the University
of Michigan. He
currently is on track to complete a Doctorate of Musical Arts later this year
at Wisconsin-Madison. A winner of several awards in conducting, performing
and composition, Harville also is assistant music
director of Madison Savoyards and has been a guest conductor with Chicago’s Oistrach Symphony.
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Travis
Jürgens is the graduate assistant director and general manager of the University of Illinois Philharmonia Orchestra.
He also has been a guest conductor with the University
of Illinois New Music Ensemble,
Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra and IES Vienna Chamber Orchestra in Vienna, Austria.
He earned a B.M. in piano performance from the Indiana University Jacobs
School of Music and an M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Christopher
Kelts
currently divides his time between his responsibilities as music
director/conductor of the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, music
director/conductor of the Benedictine-Atchison Symphony Orchestra, assistant
conductor of the Kansas City Puccini Festival, music director/conductor of
the Academy orchestras at the Missouri State University Summer String Academy
and his doctoral studies in conducting at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and
Dance. His undergraduate degree from Missouri
State University
is in viola performance, and he has a masters degree
in the same area as well as in orchestral conducting from Illinois State
University.
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