BIO:

Originally from Devon, Harriet grew up in a musical household and went on to study Orchestral Percussion at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has experience in a range of genres from ethiopian-inspired jazz band Tezeta to orchestral playing with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, studying gamelan in Bali to hip-hop punk band United Kingdoms. 

Harriet performs regularly with Spindle Ensemble, a neoimpressionist contemporary group. Their debut album, entitled Bea, was pressed to vinyl and released November 2017 with two singles and music videos recently released from their forthcoming album. 

Harriet works in a number of dance and theatre projects playing solo percussion, most recently for children’s circus theatre company Can't Sit Still. Their show, Plink & Boo, toured the UK Autumn 2018 and Spring 2019 as well performing at Circus City 2019. Harriet also regularly performs with the Paraorchestra + Friends on their Richard Feynman-inspired dance collaboration called The Nature of Why as well as Minimalism Changed My Life: Tones Drones and Arpeggios and Anatomy of the Orchestra. She has toured extensively with the Paraorchestra both nationally and internationally in prestigious venues such as the Southbank Centre and the Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth WA. 

Harriet recently performed a specially commissioned percussion concerto, Heartbeat, by William Goodchild with Bristol Symphony Orchestra to a sold out audience at St George’s Bristol. She is currently a composer and performer for Thimble Theatre and has been working freelance in Bristol since she graduated in 2014. 

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