Conrad Harris Bio

Conrad Harris A violinist with “imposing technique,” (New York Times) Conrad Harris brings “fire and excitement, as well as a surprising amount of beauty” (New York Classical Review) in his approach to the contemporary music repertoire. He has performed new works for violin at Ostrava Days, Darmstadt Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, Gulbenkian Encounters of New Music, Radio France, Warsaw Autumn, and New York’s Sonic Boom Festival. In addition to being a member of the FLUX Quartet and violin duo String Noise, he is concertmaster/soloist with the S.E.M. Orchestra, Ostravská Banda, STX Ensemble and Ensemble LPR. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Elliott Sharp, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David Behrman “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jean-Claude Risset, Rohan de Saram and Tiny Tim. His expansive repertoire includes premieres and works by George Lewis, Julio Estrada, Annie Gosfield, Christian Wolff, Michael Hersch, Isabel Mundy, Cassandra Miller, to name a few.

His recordings of the Lejaren Hiller Violin Sonatas with pianist, Joseph Kubera was released in 2018 on New World Records and his extensive discography can be heard on Asphodel, Vandenburg, CRI, New Focus, Black Truffle, Astres’dOr, Cold Blue, Northern Spy, Infrequent Seams and Vinyl Retentive Records. Soon to be released is Conrad’s recording of the complete Freeman Etudes by John Cage as well as an album of works he commissioned from the composers of the Sonic Arts Union: Robert Ashely, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma.