Two - Day Symposium sponsored by the Tennessee Entertainment Commissionwith Andy Hill former VP of…
The Moscow Music Perspective
NCA Master Class Series
The Moscow Music Perspective: How to Get Your Music Played Throughout the World
Dr. Olga Harris
Professor of Composition, Tennessee State University
The NCA offers an opportunity to learn from Dr. Olga Harris‘s experience in reaching an international audience with her music. Dr. Harris is the Professor of Composition at Tennessee State University, an active international composer, and a member of the Moscow Composer’s Association. Beyond offering tips on going international with your compositions, Dr. Harris will compare different perspectives of new music abroad and different composers association’s strategies for service. Finally, Deidre Emerson, an active cellist in Nashville, will perform Dr. Harris’s Cello Sonata in C. Join us in the inspirational Russian Art Gallery “O Gallery” of Olga Alexeeva in the Marathon Village of Downtown Nashville for the seminar, sonata, socialization, and snacks!
EVENT DETAILS:
Saturday, December 9th, 6:00 p.m.
Marathon Village
1305 Clinton St., Ste. 120, Nashville 37203
(615) 645-1606
admission: free
About Dr. Olga Harris
Dr. Olga Harris was born in Moscow, Russia. She began to write music as a child. She graduated from Ukraine College with a degree in Piano and received her Master degree as a composer for Moscow Conservatory and a Doctorate from Moscow Arts Academy. She studied composition for three years with the famous Composer Aram Khachaturian. She was his last student.
Dr. Harris specializes in Chamber Music and has composed three symphonies, Piano Concerto, two Quartets, four Sonatas for piano, clarinet, violin and cello, two cantatas, five vocal cycles, many songs and over 600 pieces for piano and chamber instruments. She has also written music for two animated movies and music for Drama Theater and TV. Her music was performed at many festivals and concerts, such as Moscow Autumn in Russia, Russian Avant garde in Heidelberg, Germany. She has many concerts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kiev, Riga, Germany, Spain and France.
In 1993 she moved to the United States where she continued her music career as a composer and pianist. She has performed a number of recitals including solo and with singers, Boris Burdin, Ludmila Korgavina, and Larisa Kholodnaya. She has lectured at Limestone College about Russian Music and performed at International Festival in Colombia, SC.
Dr. Harris is actively composing music in America. She has composed over one thousand pieces for piano designed for her method of teaching piano . She is teaching piano and music composition with her own method of teaching She continues to compose chamber music. Her music has been performed after moving to America in Aspen, Colorado, Interlochen, Michigan, Purchase, New York, Hamburg and Munich, Germany, Moscow, Russia and Nashville, Tennessee.Her future plans include a solo recital and Master Class at New York University, recitals with Simon Grinberg in Dallas, Texas and New York, New York, a recital with Larisa Kholodnay in St. Petersburg, Florida and two International festivals in Moscow, Russia.
