Conrad Harris

Violinist Conrad Harris, from Kansas City, Missouri, has toured Asia, Europe, South America and the United States as first violinist of the White Oak String Quartet of Baryshnikov Productions.

He has served as Concertmaster for the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Italy, the STX Ensemble, and the S.E.M. Ensemble and Orchestra. Mr. Harris is also a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

He is a principal performer with various new music ensembles such as the Sequitur Ensemble, Locrian Chamber Ensemble, S.E.M., and SPIT Orchestra of Bang on a Can. Mr. Harris has also performed solo and chamber music at the Darmstadt Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, the Gulbenkian Encounters of New Music, where he performed Iannis Xenakis’s Dikhthas for violin and piano to great acclaim, and, most recently, at Warsaw Autumn as concertmaster in the first orchestra of Stockhausen's Gruppen.

Recent recordings include Disparate Stairway Radical Other , a string quartet by Lucia Dlugoszewski on CRI records, released in December, 2000, and Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas by Alvin Lucier for violin and sine-wave oscillator for Lovely Music to be released in 2001.

He has recorded for Hyperion, Asphodel, CRI, Lovely Music, and Vinyl Retentive.