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Paul Harris

Biography

Paul Harris has established an international reputation as one of Britain’s leading educationalists. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where, as a pupil of John Davies, he won the August Manns Prize for outstanding performance in clarinet playing. He also studied composition under Timothy Baxter and conducting with Maurice Miles. He then went on to study music education with Professor Keith Swanwick at the University of London. He has taught in many institutions in England and gives classes both here and abroad; among his pupils is the child prodigy, Julian Bliss. He has well over two hundred publications to his name; most are concerned with music education dealing primarily with stimulating and helping young players to develop their musical skills. These include two clarinet tutors, a considerable variety of works for various instruments, the highly acclaimed Improve Your Sight Reading! series which has sold nearly half a million copies worldwide, and the more recent Improve Your Scales! series. His compositions also include a number of extended and more serious works including the five Buckingham Concertos; Sonatinas for Piano, Clarinet, Oboe and Cor Anglais, and much chamber music. He has also written an opera for children, ‘The Meal’. Recently he has made a major contribution to the English National Curriculum. He has also edited a number of works, has contributed to various books on music education and writes regularly for a number of magazines. With Richard Crozier, he wrote ‘The Music Teacher’s Companion’. He is an examiner for the Associated Board and adjudicates at music festivals and various national competitions.

In addition he has undertaken research into specialist music education for the highly talented - an interest that has taken him to many musical institutions around the world.

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