By Staff
BERRIEN SPRINGS – Michigan's third-largest professional orchestra, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, will make a tour stop at Howard Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Jan. 18, at 3 p.m.
This season concertgoers can look forward to Symphonic Series concerts at Miller Auditorium, as well as Epic Evenings with the Burdick-Thorne String Quartet and more.
Pieces they will be performing for their concert at the Howard Performing Arts Center are yet to be determined.
The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra stays busy each season with in excess of 40 concerts, performing for more than 100,000 people throughout southwest Michigan. They also make appearances for educational and community engagements.
Raymond Harvey, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's music director since 1999, is an excellent pianist and accomplished choral conductor.
He has been the music director of the Fresno Philharmonic, the Springfield Symphony and associate conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic.
Harvey holds his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a doctor of musical arts from Yale School of Music.
The appointment of Harvey as music director marked the beginning of a new era for the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.
The subscription series at Miller Auditorium, annual holiday presentations, chamber orchestra concerts, free summer park concerts and numerous educational programs provide the core of Kalamazoo's musical life.
Symphony musicians teach privately, in local schools, at Western Michigan University and at Kalamazoo College, perform in chamber groups, at church services and in other orchestras around the region.
Tickets for Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra can be purchased by calling the box office at (269) 471-3560.
General admission tickets cost $20; Andrews University faculty and staff are $5 and Andrews University students are free.
Special rates apply for groups.
The Howard Performing Arts Center is a premier 850-seat concert hall on the campus of Andrews University.
Founded in 1874, Andrews University is the flagship institution of higher education for the Seventh-day Adventist church, located one-half mile east of the U.S. 31 Bypass in Berrien Springs.