Dr. Tyler Harrison is an American composer and music educator. He has written three symphonies, a piano concerto, a cello concerto, and numerous concert works for orchestra and wind ensemble.
Harrison has completed two symphonies since 2021. His Symphony No. 3 was commissioned in 2022 by the Music and Moore Foundation for a two-symphony concert on mental health with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Harrison’s Symphony No. 2 was commissioned by a consortium of eight wind ensembles in the United States and Canada.
His music employs large contrapuntal forms, including "cloud" canons, double canons, and canonic fugues. His contrapuntal writing is used to create large sound masses, where established themes communicate to each other in moving clouds of sound.
Harrison earned his D.M.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an M.M. from Manhattan School of Music. His mentors include David Maslanka, Carter Pann, Daniel Kellogg, Kevin Beavers, and Susan Botti.
