Harris Andersen currently serves as the Assistant Conductor of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra  and Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra. He held the position of Assistant Conductor and Repetiteur  for the inaugural installation of the 2022 Ithaca College Opera Studio, leading productions of  scenes from Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte.  

A recent graduate of the Ithaca College School of Music, Harris studied piano with Charis  Dimaras, violin with Calvin Wiersma, and conducting with Grant Cooper. While in Ithaca, Harris  maintained a busy schedule accompanying colleagues in lessons, recitals, and masterclass  throughout the string, wind, and voice areas on campus and across the hill at Cornell University.  He frequently arranged groups to conduct in reading sessions of standard orchestral repertoire  and in the Fall of 2021 organized an ad-hoc chamber orchestra for a performance of Beethoven’s  mighty Seventh Symphony. Harris won the 2022 Mary Hayes North Competition for senior  piano majors and the 2020 Ithaca College Concerto Competition with the finale from  Rachmaninov’s celebrated Second Piano Concerto.  

This past summer, Harris was featured as an International Baroque Soloist at the Bach and  Beyond Festival in Fredonia, NY and was named a 2022 Conducting Fellow at the Eastern  Music Festival where he led the Festival Orchestra in a rousing performance of Dvorak’s  Carnival Overture. He spent the last few weeks of summer with the Northern Lights Chamber  Music Institute, traveling around Northern Minnesota performing in chamber groups. He has  worked with famous artists including Sergei Babayan, Peter Serkin, and Jeremy Denk and is a  proud alum of the Greater New Haven Youth Orchestra and Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestra.