Harriet Riley

Originally from Devon, Harriet studied Orchestral Percussion at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has experience in a range of genres from world music and orchestral, to jazz-funk band Tezeta and contemporary music with New Music in the South West. Harriet has recently recorded the debut album with Spindle Ensemble, an alternative, contemporary classical group supported by Adderwell Music. Their album, entitled Bea, will be pressed to vinyl and released November 2017. Harriet works in a number of dance and theatre projects playing solo percussion, most recently for children theatre company Can't Sit Still which has just completed its first Research and Development process for Plink/Boo. Harriet won the Senior Soloist prize for Music in the Vale 2012 and the McGrenery chamber music prize 2014. She is now the composer and musician for projects such as Thimble Theatre and Cyrimba and has been working freelance in Bristol for the past 3 years since she graduated.