Michael Harrison
Composer/pianist Michael Harrison (called “an American maverick” by Philip Glass) is one of only a few musicians with equal training and immersion in both Western classical and Indian classical music. His music forges a new approach to composition through tunings and structures that extend the ancient concept of just intonation, a form of pure tuning constructed from musical intervals of perfect mathematical proportions.
Harrison has been commissioned by Roomful of Teeth, Alarm Will Sound, and Cello Octet Amsterdam. Revelation was named one of the Best Classical Recordings of 2007 by The New York Times and Boston Globe. Time Loops, with Maya Beiser, was selected for NPR’s Top 10 Classical Albums of 2012. A Guggenheim, NYFA, MacDowell and Yaddo Fellow, he also invented the harmonic piano, a grand piano that plays 24 notes per octave.
Composer La Monte Young brought Harrison to New York as his protégé. He also became a disciple of Young and Terry Riley’s music guru Pandit Pran Nath.
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Philip Glass "Two Pages": Michael Harrison & Sophia Vastek's new arrangement of a minimalist classic
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