Composers, Writers and Editors
Paul Harris
Paul Harris studied the clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music with Professor John Davies, winning the August Manns Prize for outstanding playing; composition with Timothy Baxter, and conducting with Maurice Miles. He then went on to study music education at the University of London where he was a pupil of Professor Keith Swanwick. He now has over six hundred publications to his name; among them The Music Teacher's Companion, which won the UK Music Industry Award for Best New Book, the Improve Your Scales!, Improve Your Practice!, Improve Your Aural! and Improve Your Sight-Reading! series (published by Faber Music), through which he has assisted thousands of young players worldwide to develop these vital musical skills. He is a gifted composer who writes appealing music for players of all abilities and ages and has written many other works ranging from innumerable short education pieces to seven concertos, a ballet and a children's opera.
Paul writes regularly for many of the major international music magazines, including Music Teacher, BBC Music Magazine, the ABRSM’s Libretto, and the American ICA Journal. He is in great demand as a workshop and seminar leader and adjudicator in the UK, the USA and the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Paul has also undertaken research into specialist music education for the highly talented (the clarinet prodigy Julian Bliss number among his pupils), an interest that has taken him to many musical institutions around the world.
He is an examiner and adjudicator and is frequently asked to take part in national events including the Chamber Music for Schools Competition, Music for Youth, the BBC Young Musician of the Year and he is a regular judge for Classic FM’s teacher of the Year. He has also recently co-authored (with Anthony Meredith) major new biographies of the British composer Sir Malcolm Arnold (Malcolm Arnold: Rogue Genius), the late Master of The Queen's Music, Malcolm Williamson (Malcolm Williamson - A Mischievous Muse) and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.
Paul's innovative teaching techniques, especially his concept of Simultaneous Learning, have found support all over the world and combine thoroughness, imagination and practicality; the defining qualities of his outstandingly successful work.
A Christmas Sequence
Composer: Paul Harris QT104
A Christmas Sequence for unison voices and organ/piano
Composer: Paul Harris QT105
All Aboard! Eleven easy pieces for piano
Composer: Paul Harris QT75
Anything Can Happen!
Composer: Paul Harris QT19
Cat and Mouse for Narrator, clarinet & piano
Composer: Paul Harris QT10
Celebration for Two Clarinets
Composer: Paul Harris QT221
Clarinet Quintet
Composer: Gaetono Donizetti Arranger: Robert Secret Editor: Paul Harris QT219
Clarinetwise for 4 B flat clarinets & bass clarinet
Composer: Paul Harris QT5B
Clarinetwise for Clarinet choir
Composer: Paul Harris QT5
Clarinetwise for Clarinet quartet
Composer: Paul Harris QT5A
Colours
Composer: Paul Harris QT3
Composers on the Nine
Editor: Paul Harris QT125
Dental Suite - 16 Studies for Solo Trombone
Composer: Paul Harris QT182
Divertimento
Composer: Paul Harris QT13
Divertimento
Composer: Paul Harris QT14
Dream City
Composer: Sir Malcolm Arnold Arranger: Paul Harris QT42
Encore!
Composer: Paul Harris QT134
Epithalamium
Composer: Paul Harris QT9
Fanfare
Composer: Paul Harris QT16
Fanfares for all Occasions
Composer: Paul Harris QT166
Five Waltzes
Composer: Paul Harris QT12
Hornpipe Variations
Composer: Paul Harris QT114
Hornpipe Variations
Composer: Paul Harris QT123
I Hate Crossing the Break!
Composer: Paul Harris QT119
Introduction, Theme and Variations on We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Composer: Paul Harris QT133
Larghetto and Minuet
Arranger: Paul Harris QT29
Little Red Cap, an opera for trumpet & piano
Composer: Paul Harris Librettist: Isabel Matson QT139
Malcolm Arnold in Words
Editor: Paul Harris QT124
Malcolm Arnold: a life in pictures
Editor: Paul Harris QT101
Mr Porter Comes to Town
Composer: Cole Porter Arranger: Paul Harris QT223
Music for a Medieval Banquet
Composer: Paul Harris QT190
Music for a Medieval Banquet
Composer: Paul Harris QT191
On Safari Again
Composer: Paul Harris QT155
Paul Harris: Cancer and Positivity
Composer: Paul Harris QT200
Renaissance Dances
Composer: Paul Harris QT113
Riotous Ragtime
Composer: Paul Harris QT102
Six Clerihew Songs
Composer: Paul Harris QT15
Six Shakespeare Pieces for Cor Anglais/Oboe & Piano
Composer: Paul Harris QT180
Soliloquy & Burlesque for Clarinet & Piano
Composer: Paul Harris QT185
Sonata da Camera
Composer: Paul Harris QT6
Sonata da Camera for Solo Clarinet
Composer: Paul Harris QT2
Sonatina
Composer: Paul Harris QT1
Sonatina
Composer: Paul Harris QT8
Summer Waltzes
Composer: Paul Harris QT48
Swiftly
Composer: Paul Harris QT84
The 10th Malcolm Arnold Festival
Editor: Paul Harris QT158
The Meal
Composer: Paul Harris QT17
The Nine Muses for Clarinet Quintet
Composer: Paul Harris QT100
The Remarkable Ruth
Author: Paul Harris QT99
The Teddy Bears' Picnic
Arranger: Paul Harris QT34
The Trouble with a Kitten
Composer: Paul Harris QT4
The Trouble with a Kitten for E flat, B flat, Alto & Bass clarinets
Composer: Paul Harris QT4A
The Unhappy Aardvark
Composer: Paul Harris QT23
Three Baboons for Bassoon
Composer: Paul Harris QT171
Train Music
Composer: Paul Harris QT111
Trio
Composer: Paul Harris QT11
Trombone Concerto
Composer: Paul Harris QT24
Twenty Tunes for Two Bassoons
Composer: Jonathan Whiting, Paul Harris QT201
What's Your Name?
Composer: Paul Harris QT95
What's Your Name?
Composer: Paul Harris QT96
What's Your Name?
Composer: Paul Harris QT97
What's Your Name?
Composer: Paul Harris QT98
What's Your Name?
Composer: Paul Harris QT112
What's Your Name? Easy Duets for Two Bassoons
Composer: Paul Harris QT197
Wizard's Waltz
Composer: Paul Harris QT103
Zoo Time
Composer: Paul Harris QT74
