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Abby Harris (age 19) is a New York City-based composer and pianist. She currently studies with Timo Andres at Mannes School of Music as a composition major, and has studied composition with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Tamar Muskal, and Kevin James. Abby’s works have earned recognition from MATA, Jr., NFMC, Robert Avalon, and others. A chamber version of Abby’s piece “nature.trail” was featured at the American Composers Orchestra Fall Gala in October of 2022, and her piano trio “Sheva,” written during her Luna Lab Fellowship, was performed in spring of 2023 at the opening of the international art exhibition “Genesis: The Beginning of Creativity.”