[2] Ed Harrison has performed with Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, McCoy Tyner, and Paquito D'Rivera.
Harrison has performed on commercial soundtracks (jingles) for McDonald's, Kraft Foods, Sears, Kellogg, and Ameritech.
[2] Harrison is a Master of Music alumni of the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Everett Firth.
He attended the Tanglewood Music Center on a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship in 1983 and was invited to return the following year by the Artistic Directors.
[3] While in Venezuela as Principal Timpanist of the Caracas Philharmonic, he studied with the Joropo virtuoso Maximo Teppa.