Mainstage Series

RACHMANINOFF
& GLAZUNOV

GRANT HARVILLE | CANDIDATE CONDUCTOR

ALLEN HARRINGTON | SAXOPHONE

February 7 - 9, 2025

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PROGRAM

Saxophonist Allen Harrington shines in Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto as Russian romanticism meets Parisian elegance in works by Rachmaninoff and Debussy.

NATHANIEL DETT: Cave of the Winds
JOPLIN: Paragon Rag and Maple Leaf Rag
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV: Concerto in E-flat for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra, op.109
DEBUSSY: Petite Suite
RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances, op.45

CANDIDATE CONDUCTOR

GRANT HARVILLE

ARTIST

ALLEN HARRINGTON | SAXOPHONE

Price

$24 - $65

Friday

FEBRUARY

7:30pm

Kelowna Community Theatre

TICKETS

Saturday

FEBRUARY

2:00pm

Penticton’s Cleland Community Theatre

TICKETS

Sunday

FEBRUARY

2:00pm

Vernon & District
Performing Arts Centre

TICKETS

PRE-CONCERT CHAT

One hour before each performance.

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Open Dress Rehearsal

Friday, February 7 | 2:00pm
Kelowna Community Theatre
Suggested $20 donation at the door

MAINSTAGE SERIES PARTNERS

Judy & Graham Burns

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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. He previously held director positions with the Idaho State-Civic Symphony (where he earned a 20 Under 40 award from the Southeast Idaho Business Journal), Bozeman Symphony, and Ripon College; and was Assistant Director with the Georgia Symphony; His guest conducting appearances include the Bozeman Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Southwest Michigan Symphony, St. Cloud Symphony, Georgia Symphony, Oistrach Symphony, and Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City, and recently the Civic Orchestra of Victoria.

Harville's diverse musical background includes history as tubist, violist, and vocalist. A composer as well, he has dedicated himself to presenting contemporary works in meaningful ways. An accomplished vocalist, Harville appeared as tenor with the renowned Atlanta Symphony Chorus, performing as soloist with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

A devoted educator, Harville was Music Director of the Boise Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and has given numerous clinics for school orchestras, honors orchestras, youth orchestras, orchestra festivals, and summer programs.

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.

RACHMANINOFF & GLAZUNOV
February 7, 8 & 9, 2025

Grant Harville

Allen Harrington | Saxophone

Allen Harrington is a Professor at the University of Manitoba Desautels Faculty of Music where he is the chair of woodwinds and teaches saxophone and bassoon. As “an extremely fluid player of superb artistry” (Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal), Allen has amazed and delighted audiences with his “honest sound, …radio-active resonance,” (Halifax Chronicle Herald) “considerable virtuosity,” and “mellifluous tone,” (Winnipeg Free Press). Hailing from Saskatoon, he holds music degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and Northwestern University. He maintains a busy schedule outside his university teaching career as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician, and adjudicator. Allen has appeared as a saxophone soloist with more than a dozen orchestras in Canada, Europe, and South America. With his duo partner Laura Loewen (piano), over the past twenty years he has given countless recitals across North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Allen has three recordings on the Ravello Records label featuring music for saxophone and piano as well as saxophone and pipe organ: Metropolis, The Postcard Sessions and Vanishing Point. As a bassoonist, Allen plays as a regular extra with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and principal bassoon with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.

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Sunday

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2:00pm

PRE-CONCERT CHAT

Open Dress Rehearsal

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Grant Harville

Allen Harrington | Saxophone

Mainstage Series

RACHMANINOFF& GLAZUNOV

SEASON SPONSOR

SEASON SPONSOR

PROGRAM

CANDIDATE CONDUCTOR

ARTIST

Price

Friday

FEBRUARY

7:30pm

Saturday

FEBRUARY

2:00pm

Sunday

FEBRUARY

2:00pm

PRE-CONCERT CHAT

Open Dress Rehearsal

MAINSTAGE SERIES PARTNERS

Grant Harville

Allen Harrington | Saxophone

RACHMANINOFF
& GLAZUNOV