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Harrison J Collins
Biography
Harrison J. Collins (b. 29 December 1999, Dallas, Tx.) is an American composer and student.
Mr. Collins began composing at the age of fourteen. Since then, he has made a name for himself across the United States as a skilled composer. He combines his musical studies in academic settings with years of self-teaching and a strong intuition to write music that challenges and connects to performers and listeners alike. Harrison studied at Illinois State University with Roy Magnuson and Roger Zare, before moving to Texas Christian University in 2021 to study music composition and bassoon.
Collins' works for wind ensemble have been performed across the United States and Internationally. He is a winner of numerous composition competitions, including the Sinta Quartet Composition Competition, the Dallas Winds Fanfare Competition, the National Young Composers Challenge, the Austin Symphony Orchestra's Texas Young Composers Competition, and multiple Fifteen Minutes of Fame competitions held by Vox Novus, including one in which his work was selected for performance by the West Point Band.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- O rose of May (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
- Shining as the Sun (Flex instrumentation) (2022)
- Sunset Street (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- To Rights Our Wrongs (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2021)
All Wind Works
- The Beginning of Spring (2020)
- Catalyst (2015)
- Christmas Night (2020/2022)
- Clash (2015/2018)
- Dark Convictions (2022)
- The Deer and the Owl
- Electric City (arr. Trentadue) (2019/2022)
- Fanfare for Wild Youthful Occasions (2022)
- Finding Home (2021)
- The Floodgates of the Sky (as transcriber) (2016/2020)
- Four Architectures in Normal, Illinois
- The Hymn of Ys
- Into a world unknown (2022)
- O rose of May (2018)
- O rose of May (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2018/2020)
- The Paper Man (2018)
- Shining as the Sun (Flex instrumentation) (2022)
- Sunset Street (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- There and Back
- These Radiant Moments (2022)
- To Right Our Wrongs (2021)
- To Right Our Wrongs (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Trentadue) (2021)
- What We've Been Taught to Do with Death (2021)
- Young Voices (brass ensemble) (2018)
- Young Voices (wind ensemble) (2018/2020)
Resources
- Harrison J. Collins website Accessed 27 October 2020
- "Harrison J. Collins." Millennium Composers Initiative. Web. Accessed 12 December 2018
- Harrison Collins, personal correspondence, December 2018
- Harrison J. Collins website Accessed 12 December 2018