HarrisonAcademy.org
Title
The Guy Fraser Harrison Academy for the Performing Arts
Contact
- Guy Fraser Harrison Academy
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- Oklahoma City Oklahoma
- United States 73102
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- +1.14052321199
Description
The Guy Fraser Harrison Academy was created to provide advanced orchestral education and performance opportunities for talented middle and high school musicians. The Academy seeks to strengthen already-existing school instrumental music programs and to supplement programs that do not include orchestra. Harrison Academy provides the opportunity for youth musicians throughout central Oklahoma to challenge their performance skills under the direction of respected conductors and music educators.
The Guy Fraser Harrison Academy was founded in 1977 as The Oklahoma Youth Orchestra. It is named in honor of the longtime music director and conductor of the Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, Guy Fraser Harrison. Harrison Academy is the umbrella organization that administers the Oklahoma Youth Orchestras program.
International concert tours have been a feature of the OYO experience from the beginning. The orchestra has performed before audiences in venues as diverse as China, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Scandinavia, Mexico, Italy, France, Wales, England, Austria, Switzerland, and Scotland.
