SOIVA Camp Teacher's Biographies

A Focused Music Education Program For Young People

Debora Harris

Flutist Debora Harris is Associate Professor of Flute at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, where she teaches studio flute and directs the Concordia Flute Choir. For the past nineteen 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 (Massachusetts) and the Breckenridge (Colorado) Music Institute. Since 1989, she and Concordia guitar professor, Mike Coates, have performed as the Harris-Coates Duo. The Duo has released three CDs, and has performed at the National Flute Conventions in Phoenix, Dallas, and San Diego, and at the College Music Society Conference in Boulder. They have performed concerts and given master classes on college campuses throughout the US. Debora was a faculty member at the Soiva summer music camp in 2008.

Debora 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. 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.