James is also the director of the Suffolk County Community College Guitar Ensemble. James is an adjunct instructor of music at Nassau Community College, LIU Post, and Suffolk County Community College, where he teaches music history, theory, and fretboard harmony. JAMES ERICKSON has an active career performing and teaching classical and rock guitar throughout the New York metropolitan area and Long Island. Songe d'été en Musique…"Happiness for the soul in an enchanting landscape"
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"His professional demeanor and thorough musical knowledge, as well as his performance skills are exceptional" – Greater Port Jefferson-Northern Brookhaven Arts Council Becker's presentation of these pieces was a study in fluidity and grace." "Becker's performance of this demanding work a depiction of one of Australia's national parks" – is lyrical and imaginative" – Raymond Tuttle,.
Ellis Music Publishing and Calavar Music. His recordings include "Catgut Flambo" with guitarist Pasquale Bianculli, a solo CD "Passing Through and a new CD with the Artesian Guitar Quartet." His editions and publications are published by T.D. This concert was called "historic" by the press in Quebec. In 2015 the festival celebrated its tenth anniversary, which featured the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. Harris Becker is co-founder and artistic director of the summer music festival in rural Quebec "Songe d'été en Musique".
Becker is also a member of the Artesian Guitar Quartet. He recently received an award for outstanding service from the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Long Island University. Becker to participate in Florida's Artist Residency Program, giving lecture/performances on the lute and baroque guitar. The Florida State Division of Cultural Affairs selected Mr. Harris Becker is Director of Guitar Studies at LIU Post and has been a faculty member at Nassau Community College, The Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and Director of Music for Mixed Ensembles at the International Institute for Chamber Music at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. Becker founded the Long Island Guitar Festival, of which the New York Times wrote: "The "Long Island" in the festival title clearly refers to its location and origins, rather than to its scope"(2014).
Becker will be featured playing the lute music of John Dowland in a forthcoming documentary "Shakespeare in New York" directed by Peter Josyph. In the spring of 2015 "The Amaryllis Project" (world-renowned pipa virtuoso Liu Fang and Harris Becker) gave a concert of world premieres for pipa & guitar at the Long Island Guitar Festival, which included a new work by Carlo Domeniconi. Becker gave concerts and master classes in Thailand and throughout Vietnam including at the U.S Consulate in Saigon. In recent years he has given concerts and master classes in New York, Alabama, Canada, Connecticut, Florida and Bermuda. Among the composers who have dedicated works to him are Carlo Domeniconi, Hayley Savage, Raoul Pleskow, Howard Rovics, microtonal composer Johnny Reinhard, Alan Hirsh, Michael Frassetti, Joseph Russo and Richard Iacona.īecker has performed extensively both as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Mexico and Canada. He also had a strong interest in contemporary music, which offered him the opportunity to work closely with composers and premiere many solo and ensemble pieces throughout his career. As a young musician studying the classical guitar he had a fascination with improvisation, which led him to explore jazz. Harris Becker has had a rich and varied career as a guitarist and lutenist.
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