Tracy Harris has been applauded for her solo work and has been praised for her orchestral performances. As an active Yamaha Artist and Clinician, author, and teacher, Tracy Harris has been exciting audiences with her electrifying performances for over twenty years throughout the United States and Canada. Tracy has performed solo recitals, chamber music, and concertos across the United States and has premiered many new pieces. As an accomplished soloist and orchestral musician, Tracy has performed concertos or has held principal chairs with many different ensembles: the Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Coastal Valley's Symphony, the Tulare County Symphony, the West Coast Symphony, the Santa Barbara Chorale Society, Ojai Requiem Orchestra, Santa Ynez Valley Orchestra, the Santa Maria Symphony and the Tulare Symphony to name but a few.
Tracy has served as Artistic Director of the Coastal Valley's Symphony Chamber Series and has performed in many new music premieres with such composers as Patrick Cassidy for his U.S. premiere of "Famine and Remembrance." She performed for the world premiere of Phillip Lasser's "The Alchemist," and has made recordings with the Pacific Coast Chamber Orchestra and the PCPA Theaterfest. Tracy performs extensively with her award winning trio, "Wyndfall," performing with her sister Wendy Harris-LeBlanc on harp and her sister-in-law Russian concert pianist Svetlana Rudikova-Harris. Tracy has worked in the studios with Emmy winning composers such as Carl Johnson for Disney. Her teachers have included Julius Baker, Claude Monteux, Ann Giles, Jill Felber, James Walker, Wendy Heckler-Denbaum, and James Pellerite. She was selected as a participant in the Julius Baker Master Class in Carmel, California and the Western Connecticut State University Julius Baker Master Class. She has also been a participant in master classes given by James Pellerite, Ann Giles, and Jean-Pierre Rampal.
Tracy was invited to attend the Juilliard School of Music by Julius Baker at the age of sixteen and attended the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She holds degrees in flute performance and is a two-year graduate of the famous Music Academy of the West. Tracy has received numerous awards and honors from such organizations as The National Society of Arts and Letters, The Pillsbury Foundation, The Santa Barbara Foundation, and the New England Conservatory of Music. Tracy has won many local and national honors including the National Society of Arts and Letters grant competition, the Pillsbury Foundation scholarship competition for eight consecutive years, the Santa Barbara Symphony Young Artists competition, the UCSB Music Affiliates award, the Santa Barbara Music Club scholarship, the Performing Arts Scholarship Foundation Competition, and the American Scandinavian Foundation competition.
Tracy has been a flute instructor at the College of the Sequoias and she maintains a large private studio in addition to conducting flute clinics and lectures. She was one of a select few invited to audition for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Lincoln Center. Tracy serves as Director of Music Theoretic Studies at the Pacific Center for Advanced Studies.
