Thatcher Harrison

Thatcher Harrison is a guitarist and a composer. As a guitarist, he plays everything from classical guitar to jazz guitar, to fingerstyle guitar and more. As a composer, Thatcher Harrison specializes in what he calls “classical fusion” composition: pieces based in classical composition and performance techniques, but with influences from jazz music, rock music, fingerstyle guitar music, film score music, and world music. You can hear influences from a wide range of music genres in his original compositions.

As a competitor, Thatcher Harrison has won 20 prizes in regional, national, and international competitions. Thatcher is currently studying for his Masters degree at the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconisin – Milwaukee with René Izquierdo. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Guitar Performance at New England Conservatory where he studied with Eliot Fisk and Jérôme Mouffe.