Harriet’s music is influenced by natural landscapes and geological landforms such as glaciers, tundra, deserts, caverns and the deep ocean, as well as contemporary dance, artwork, and sculpture.

Harriet holds a masters degree in composition from the Royal College of Music in London, as a RCM Award Holder supported by a Douglas and Hilda Simmonds scholarship, with a Clifton Parker Award, and a Vaughan Williams Bursary from the RVW Trust. Prior to this she studied music composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, with a short period spent studying abroad at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. She is also a pianist and cellist.

Her work has been performed, workshopped and commissioned internationally, most recently in the United Kingdom, Bosnia & Herzegovinia, Switzerland and China, at venues and events such as the Vijećnica (City Hall, Sarajevo), Chiesa di San Remigio (Loco, Ticino), Royal Albert Hall’s Festival of Science: Space, BBC Hoddinott Hall, National Portrait Gallery London, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Leeds Lieder Festival, Presteigne Festival of the Arts, and in Guiyang and Shenzhen in China.

Harriet has composed for ensembles including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with conductor Jac van Steen (Composition: Wales Programme 2016), Psappha (Composing For Pipa Programme 2022), Music Theatre Wales (Make An Aria Project 2015), Guiyang Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and musicians of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Royal College of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has attended international composition programmes including the Peter Reynolds Composers Studio (Vale of Glamorgan Festival, Cardiff), Vienna Summer Music Festival, ICEBERG New Music Institute (Vienna), the HighSCORE Festival (Pavia, Italy), Talis Festival & Academy (Sarajevo), and the International Young Composers Academy Ticino (Switzerland), where she composed a new vocal work ‘Luminous’, premiered by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. Harriet has been a Visiting Guest Composition Lecturer at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has taught composition and music theory privately. She has recently worked as a Freelance Music Arranger for the CBSO Learning & Engagement Team, Music Theory Teacher for the CBSO Children’s Chorus, and as the Creative Learning Producer at Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

Over the past decade Harriet has undertaken research projects in Indonesia, Estonia and the Gansu Province in northwestern China in collaboration with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Royal College of Music, which led to the commission and performances of ‘The Mountain Voices Echo’ for string orchestra and percussion, based upon the traditional songs of the Yugur women of the foothills of the Qilian Mountains.

Harriet was the recipient of the 2015 Philip Bates Trust Composition Prize and Audience Award at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Most recently she received a Composers Award from Sound and Music and was the Open Category winner of the Leamington Sinfonia Composition Competition. She has been a LSO Soundhub Associate Composer from 2022-24, and is about to start work as Assistant Librarian of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.