Ross Talbot Harris QSM (born 1 August 1945) is a New Zealand composer, multi-instrumentalist, and music educator.
He then succeeded Lilburn as the professor of electro-acoustic music at Victoria, a position he maintained for over thirty years.
[2][3] He is a founding member of the Wellington-based band Free Radicals whose pioneering experiments in electro-acoustic music in the 1980s influenced the development of electronica in the 1990s.
[1] He achieved significant critical attention for his 1984 opera Waituhi: Te Ora O Te Whanau, the first opera created in the Māori language,[1] and in the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for public services.
[1] As an instrumentalist, Harris has played French horn in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and accordion in the Wellington klezmer group The Kugels.