Trombonist Richard Harris is in demand both in the US and Europe as a soloist and clinician. His performance of Rimsky–Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" is featured as the sound–tag for 10.2 surround-sound technology. Richard was a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London and earned his master's degree from Indiana University. He is a former member of the New World Symphony and is regularly invited to perform with the Boston Symphony and Buffalo Philharmonic orchestras. Richard has worked under the batons of Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Neville Marriner, John Adams, Paavo Järvi, Sir Colin Davies, David Robertson, and Pierre Boulez. He is the co–founder and former executive director of the Miami Music Project, a program that brings chamber music performances to the public school children of Miami–Dade County. As part of his Academy program, Richard teaches in the Bronx at Fordham High School for the Arts.