Michael Harrison is an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist living in New York City.
[2] As a child and teenager, he spent summers in both Chatham and Concord, MA with his grandfather, George R. Harrison, a professor of experimental physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1930), and Dean of Science (1942–64).
in Composition, where he later received the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award, and then moved to New York City to study with La Monte Young through a Dia Art Foundation Apprenticeship-in Residency.
Critic Kyle Gann referred to it as "an indisputable landmark in the history of Western tuning".
[6] He is also the co-founder and president of the American Academy of Indian Classical Music (AAICM).