JoAnne Harris

Profile

Discipline: Media Scoring

JoAnne Harris has conducted and recorded film scores at Abbey Road, East West, The Village, and Avatar with artists such as Grammy-winning Kurt Elling and members of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Her television work includes scores for Mal de Ojo (HBO), 20/20, Primetime, and Dateline. She has orchestrated and conducted scores for blockbusters City of Lies and The Infiltrator. Most recently, she conducted and orchestrated the score for season 2 of Life and Beth (Hulu). Other highlights include conducting ensembles for the Shinnyo-En Lantern Lighting Festival at Lincoln Center, writing string arrangements for Chris Cester (of the band Jet), working on the music team of Sylvia (Broadway), and a summer in Shenzhen, China, writing music for an aerial circus show. She is a 2020 Vandoren Emerging Artist Composer, a 2015 ASCAP Composer to Watch and a 2016 winner of the Dallas Winds Fanfare Competition. Her concert music has been played by Manhattan Wind Ensemble, Met Winds, ensembles at Arizona State, Oregon State University, South Dakota State University, University of Texas at Austin, Cal State Fullerton, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of Northern Iowa, among others. A graduate of Concordia College, Harris studied choral music with René Clausen. She also teaches orchestration at Catholic University of America, and she is a steering committee member of the Society of Composers and Lyricists in New York. Harris is a student of the organ and spends her free time working through the Orgelbüchlein. She is thankful that her formative years were spent in the company of her father’s eclectic CD collection.