Matthew Harris (composer)

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Matthew Harris

Background information
Birth name Matthew Harris
Born 1956
Origin United States
Website MatthewHarrisMusic.com

Matthew Harris is a modern composer. He has had his works performed by the Minnesota, Houston, Florida, Jacksonville, Chattanooga, Spokane and Modesto Symphony Orchestras, the Lark Quartet, New York New Music Ensemble, League-ISCM, the New York City Opera, Sheryl Studer and Faith Esham. He has had choral works which have been commissioned or premiered by choruses such as the Dale Warland Singers, Phoenix Bach Choir, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Western Wind, and Cantori New York, and sung by countless school and community choirs across America. The National Endowment for the Arts has twice awarded him a Composer Fellowship. The composition awards he has won include those from the Chautauqua Chamber Singers, Georges Enesco Foundation, Society for New Music, National Association of Composers, Musicians Accord, Taubman Institute, ASCAP and BMI.