Barry
Harris is an Internationally renowned Jazz Pianist,
Composer and Teacher. Dr. Harris is the recipient
of an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern
University. He has received the Living Jazz
Legacy award from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Association,
and an American Jazz Masters Fellowship
from the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition,
Dr. Harris received the Manhattan Borough President
Award for Excellence. This award was
given for recognition of his devoted public service
and in honor of excellence in the field of music.
He received the 1999 Mentor award for
his work with youngsters at the Manhattan Country
School in NYC.
Dr.
Harris has devoted his life to the advancement
of Jazz and in the 1980’s founded the Jazz Cultural
Theatre. For the past several decades Dr. Harris
has been an exponent of the classic Jazz style
that was developed by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie,
Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins
Dr.
Barry Harris receives frequent request to appear
as a guest lecturer by Universities and various
musical venues all over the world. His lectures
and interactive instrument and vocal workshops
focus on the complete aspects of music including
improvisation, harmonic movement and theory. His
schedule includes lectures in the United States,
Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan.
When he is not travelling, Dr. Harris holds weekly
music workshop sessions in New York City for vocalists,
students of piano other instruments.
