| Biography | Harriet was classically trained reaching "Grade 8 with Distinction" on concert pedal harp, but she now specializes in the Celtic harp. She is a full-time harpist, playing extensively throughout the UK and abroad. In 2007 she performed as a soloist to 25,000 people in the 02 Arena and in the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of the "Young Voices" Tour. She was also chosen as one of six winners of the "Danny Kyle Open Stage Award" at the Celtic Connections Festival - picked out from among 82 different musical acts competing for the title. She was the 'Harper of All Britain' in 2000 and won it again in 2002. Harriet studied Irish, Scots Gaelic and Welsh and has a degree in Celtic Studies from Trinity College, Cambridge.
She was one of a select number of young musicians to be accepted onto the UK's Live Music Now! scheme which led to solo recitals in theatres and arts centres across the UK, as well as regular concert tours to a huge range of community venues such as special schools, nursing homes and hospitals. She is now a mentor for new people on the LMN scheme.
She gives frequent solo harp recitals
around the world. As a member of "The Irish Variety Show", she has been on 16 tours of
the USA to 20 different states since March 2002. She has been on 5 tours to Germany since 1999 including solo performances at the 'Irish Spirits' festival in Frankfurt and teaching and playing at the 'Harfentreffen' 2010. She has given concerts in Amsterdam (1997), France (where she led an Irish harp workshop in Paris in April 2001), Belgium, Holland, Ireland (May 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2007), Isle of Man (2010) and Italy (2011).
She makes regular radio and TV appearances
(presented in most of the Celtic languages!) for BBC Northern Ireland, Radio Wales, Radio na Gaeltachta, ITV Wales and S4C.
In October 2006 she toured Nova Scotia,
Canada with a group of Scottish musicians and dancers from the Isle of Barra. The tour was televised for a Scots Gaelic TV programme
"Fagail Bharraidh" on BBC Scotland (January
2007).
If you are booking Harriet, click here to download Harriet's shortened biography and programme information for publicity purposes. You can also download a photo scanned at 300 dpi by following this link.
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She loves collaborating with other musicians.
"The Harriet Earis Trio" - The Jazz-Celtic fusion album "From the Crooked Tree" with jazz drummer and percussionist Sam Christie and double bass player Andy "Wal" Coughlan came out in 2007. Click on the photo above to find T.H.E. Trio's website. There is a slideshow of T.H.E. Trio on youtube and you can click here to buy a copy of "From the Crooked Tree". In August 2008 the trio represented Wales in the Pan Celtic Festival in Lorient, France.
If you are booking The Harriet Earis Trio, click here to download T.H.E. Trio's biography for publicity or concert programmes. You can download a trio photo scanned at 300 dpi by following this link
"Triban
" - This is a new Welsh trio with singer-songwriter and guitarist Ian Wyn Rowlands and fiddler Jasper Salmon. Click on the photo above to find Triban's website. STOP PRESS Triban's first album, "Dragons", is now available as of December 2007. The album features Ian's songs in Welsh and English with a mixture of traditional and modern material, ranging from The Beatles and 70s pop to medieval Welsh songs! To buy the album online click here.
"Luasca
" - is a duo with Irish uilleann-piper, flute and whistle-player, Colman Connolly, a fellow member of Siansa. As a duo "Luasca" have toured in Scotland, Ireland and Germany. For more information, click onto "Duo" below.
"Siansa
" - is a six-piece, London-based traditional Irish band that includes several All Ireland Champions. The line-up includes fiddle/mandolin, bodhran, uilleann pipes, low whistles, mandola/guitar, vocals and wooden flute.
"The Two Harriets" - is a duo with piano accordion star Harriet Bartlett from Shropshire.
She is also part of:
"Harpasonic", a duo with fellow harpist Luisa
Cordell with whom she has also toured in
Belgium (October 2002), France (February
2004) and the US.
"Celts @ The Quay", a 4-piece Irish/Scottish
show with piper/flute-player Colman Connolly, Champion Irish step dancer Denis McDermott
(from Michael Flatley's "Lord of the Dance"
show) and Scots Gaelic singer Anna Nic Raith.
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Harriet was working for Flintshire Music Service for 3 years teaching the harp in primary and secondary schools and running the Flintshire County Harp Ensemble. She also had a term working for Ceredigion Music Service in 2007.
Although no longer teaching for a music service, she gives regular harp workshops in the UK and abroad and enjoys teaching private pupils at her home in Aberystwyth.
Along with Luisa Cordell from The International Harp Ensemble and Aberystwyth harpist Eleri Turner, she organised a 40-harp-strong Harp Ensemble Tour in August 2006 where they broke the World Record for the largest number of harps ever to be played in a Welsh castle, performing with 45 harps in Denbigh Castle!
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For full details of all concert dates do click onto the calendar page.
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