If Only My Pupils Would Practise More!

After studies at the Royal Academy of Music and the University of London, Paul Harris has now

established an international reputation as one of the UK's leading educationalists.

He studied the clarinet with Professor John Davies, winning the August Manns Prize for outstanding

performance, composition with Timothy Baxter and conducting with Maurice Miles. He then went

on to study music education at the University of London where he was a pupil of Professor Keith

Swanwick.

He now has over six hundred publications to his name mostly dealing with a vast array of subjects

mostly concerning music education. His Music Teacher's Companion (co-written with Richard

Crozier), won the UK's MIA Best New Book award and his series 'Improve Your Theory!' the Music

Teacher Best Print Resource Award. In addition he has written many works ranging from countless

short education pieces to seven concertos, a ballet and a children's opera. He has also co-authored

(with Anthony Meredith) major new biographies of Sir Malcolm Arnold, (Malcolm Arnold: Rogue

Genius), Malcolm Williamson, (Malcolm Williamson: Mischievous Muse) and Sir Richard Rodney

Bennett.

He writes regularly for many of the major international music magazines, including Music Teacher,

BBC Music Magazine, the ABRSM's Libretto, and the American ICA journal, and is in great demand

as a workshop and seminar leader and adjudicator in the UK, and across the globe. Paul has also

undertaken research into specialist music education for the highly talented (the clarinet prodigy

Julian Bliss number among his pupils), an interest that has taken him to many musical institutions

around the world.

He performs regularly, often in his voice, two clarinet and piano ensemble with Kathryn Knight, Jean

Cockburn and Bethany Philips.

He is an examiner and adjudicator and is frequently asked to take part in national events including

the Chamber Music for Schools Competition, Music for Youth, the BBC Young Musician of the Year

and Classic FM's teacher of the year. In 2006 Paul Harris's commitment to the music of Malcolm

Arnold led to the establishing of an annual Malcolm Arnold Festival in the composer's hometown of

Northampton. Under his directorship, this exciting festival explores and celebrates the music of one

of the great British composers of our age through a packed weekend of concerts, lectures and films.

He has created and continues to develop Simultaneous Learning, his highly acclaimed approach to

instrumental and singing teaching which has found support all over the world. Paul's innovative

teaching techniques combine thoroughness, imagination and practicality, which are the defining

qualities of his outstandingly successful work.