Ben Harris is Vocal Coach and Instructor of Accompanying at Shorter University. He is also responsible for the musical preparation of the opera.

Ben received his Master of Music Degree in Accompanying from Baylor University. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Oklahoma Baptist University and an Associate of Arts degree in Piano/Organ performance from Frank Phillips College. In 2002-03, a Rotary Scholarship enabled him to study Lied accompaniment and German in Vienna, Austria.

He has assisted in the musical preparation of Dialogues of the Carmelites (Baylor University), Madama Butterfly and Susannah (Opera in the Ozarks), and Hansel and Gretel (Western Illinois University), and Cendrillon, The Old Maid and the Thief, and The Medium (Shorter University).