Title: Music for Six
Commission: 1991
Completed: 1993
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, violin/viola, cello, percussion, and piano
Premiere Location: Aspen Music Festival, CO
Premiere Ensemble: Music Association of Aspen
Notes:

Matthew Harris has had orchestral works performed by the Minnesota, Houston, Florida, Jacksonville, Chattanooga, Spokane and Modesto Symphony Orchestras; chamber works by the Lark Quartet, New York New Music Ensemble and League-ISCM; and vocal works by Sheryl Studer and Faith Esham.

His one-act opera, The Mark of Cain, was recently premiered by Chelsea Opera, and his three-act opera, Tess, was presented in part by the New York City Opera (VOX series), Lake George Opera Festival and Golden Fleece, LTD. His monodrama, As You Choose, was produced at the Southern Theater in St. Paul.

Mr. Harris’s highly popular choral works have been commissioned or premiered by leading choruses such as the Dale Warland Singers, Phoenix Bach Choir, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Western Wind, and Cantori New York, and sung by countless school and community choirs across America. His A Child’s Christmas in Wales, a cantata for chorus and orchestra commissioned by Harmonium, is performed throughout the US and UK.