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About Me

I'm Richard Harris, a composer, arranger, songwriter, performer, music teacher, and the creator of the music website www.rfkharris.com.The reason I set up rfkharris.com is that I and many of my friends got fed up looking for our favourite pieces of music, and, if we found them at all, finding that they were always at a set difficulty level, sometimes wrong, and never written for interesting instruments.So I figured, what about creating a website where users can write in, saying exactly what piece of music they'd like, and choosing their preferred instrumentation, difficulty level and even key for the music. Then I post or e-mail the personalised sheet music!It's now up and running. Please take a look...
Choose your favourite piece - then choose your instrument, level and key!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/19/2006
Band Website: www.rfkharris.com
Band Members: Richard Harris (creator, composer / arranger) and Mary Harris (site technician)
Influences: Every type of music imaginable - and we can transcribe every piece of music imaginable. Send us the tape, CD, minidisc, MP3, wav, MIDI or audiofile of your favourite piece, and you'll get the sheet music of it e-mailed back to you.
Sounds Like: My work as a composer is extremely varied... here you can hear examples of three pieces I wrote for a collaboration with dancers, and a pop song I wrote for my friend Susanna. I also wrote the music to the show 'Warriors' at the London Planetarium (before it became a celebrity theme park.) On my website you can also hear excerpts from a six-keyboard classical work... have a listen!
Record Label: Works featured on Decca Argos & Pianocircus Labels
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Radio Fun

I've just finished arranging Absolute Radio's Christmas advertising (them what used to be called Virgin Radio.) This has involved arranging nine current pop songs for classical choir, to make the...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:58:00 GMT

Film & TV Theme Tune Quiz

Just for fun, I've put a film of 100 theme tunes in 9 minutes on Youtube, with a prize to anyone who can name all 100, in the right order. Here's the link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXQC...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:34:00 GMT

Fireworks

One of my favourite clients, the Fermanagh Concert Band, has returned with a request for an arrangement of Handel's entire Music for the Royal Fireworks. Time for the arrangers' tricks of the trade. W...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:59:00 GMT

Strange Christmas Fruit

When you arrange music for a living, you do occasionally get bizarre time displacements. Like, in order for the two Xmas books I'm doing to come out by Xmas 2008, the sheet music has to be a...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 08:23:00 GMT

Emma and Grandpa

Heavily back into work with an interesting BBC commission - transcribing and updating the soundtrack for a sweet 70s kids programme called Emma and Grandpa, now being rereleased on DVD. THEN next...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:26:00 GMT

Chinese odyssey

What with this lousy UK weather, and a whole lotta work going on, it's time to flee these shores for sunnier climes - China and Italy, in August. Music has been good, arranging my way through var...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:57:00 GMT

New house!

Have moved to Eltham, SE London, and LOVING it. Proper house with a garden (what's one of those!?)All on the music front is good - arranging some Shirley Bassey for an official sheet music book, ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:27:00 GMT

George Michael forever

This blog is all about George Michael. The reason being that I am currently transcribing / responsible for the official sheet music of his new album 'Twentyfive'. Actually this is ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:10:00 GMT

34 songs in 2 weeks

OK so as you probably know I'm a music arranger. So this is what happened: I'm working on a book of 24 Jazz standards, which will come out in the new year - all arranged for easy/interm...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:52:00 GMT

4 bars for the BBC

Bit of a strange one this. The BBC got in touch, wanting a 4 bar Tchaikowsky piano sketch orchestrated, urgently, for a forthcoming programme and DVD about the great man. Except the ske...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 10:58:00 GMT