Debora Harris

Debora Harris

Flutist Debora Harris is Associate Professor of Flute at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, where she teaches studio flute, coaches chamber music, and directs the Concordia Flute Choir. For the past twenty-one years, she has served as Principal Flute of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and the Fargo-Moorhead Opera Orchestra. She has also served as Principal Flute for both the Berkshire Opera Company (Lenox, Massachusetts) and the Breckenridge (Colorado) Music Institute.

Since 1989, she and guitarist, Mike Coates, have performed as the Harris-Coates Duo. The Duo has released three CDs under the Barking Dog record label, and has performed in various venues around the country, including an appearance on Minnesota Public Radio’s “The Morning Show.”

Debora has performed at the College Music Society Conference in Boulder, at the National Flute Conventions in Phoenix, Dallas, Albuquerque, San Diego, and Anaheim, and has also performed at the International Double Reed Convention and the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference. An active recitalist, she has performed recitals and given master classes throughout the United States, Canada, and England.

Harris holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Bradley University, and a Master of Music degree in flute performance from Florida State University, where she is also completing a Doctor of Music degree (ABD). She studied with Charles DeLaney, and has had additional study in England and at the Wild Acres Retreat in North Carolina, with English flutist, William Bennett. In 1994 she was named “Woman of the Year in the Arts” by the Fargo YWCA.