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Harry Searing

Adjunct Faculty, Cali School of Music

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searingh@montclair.edu
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973-655-7217
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Harry Searing is an active freelance artist on both bassoon and contrabassoon in the New York City area and has been for over 30 years. Most notably, he has performed many concerts with the New York Philharmonic with such great conductors as Bernstein, Boulez, Mehta, and Leinsdorf. In addition to performing with practically every classical organization in the New York ? New Jersey area, he has performed with several distinguished groups while on tour, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2002 he added the Heckelphone to his list of instruments of mass destruction and performed nine concerts with three different organizations on that extremely rare instrument. He can be heard as a soloist in the soundtrack to Brian DePalma?s 2004 film, Femme Fatale. In addition to performing, Mr. Searing has an extensive career in music publishing, having worked for such publishers as Boosey & Hawkes, Schott, and G. Schirmer. In 2003, he started his own publishing firm, LRQ Publishing, devoted to the bassoon music of the great Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone. He is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music where is studied with Stephen Maxym. Harry lives in Bloomfield, New Jersey with his wife Sandy and their two sons, Jonathan and Matthew.

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