Described by MusicWeb International as playing ‘with character and total understanding’, harpist and composer Harriet Adie is known for her intense musicality, creativity, and focus.

Alongside her career as a highly respected professional harpist, Harriet is also a composer whose compositions and arrangements have been broadcast on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3 in the UK, and for radio stations across the world. Her arrangements of Christmas Carols for harp quartet were described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘sparklingly energetic’, and her arrangements of Christmas Carols for solo harp were described by the British Music Society as ‘arrangements to which it is well worth paying attention’.

Her critically acclaimed composition, Sun, Moon and Stars for harp quartet, was selected for performance at the 9th World Harp Congress, and her 2012 work, Elemental for harp quartet, was performed live on BBC Radio 3. In 2017, a video of Harriet’s harp quartet arrangement of Shostakovich’s famous Waltz no.2 went viral across the world, having receiving over 6 million views to date! As a result of this exposure, she was invited to record for the Dutch label STS Digital. Other compositions include a song cycle for harp and mezzo soprano Songs of Childhood which will be performed by the Erda Ensemble at the 2025 Leeds Lieder Festival, and Jewellery Box for harp and ‘cello which received its US premiere in 2024.

Harriet is a highly sought after harp teacher, teaching at the Junior Department of the Guildhall School of Music. Passionate about music education, she has used her teaching expertise to formulating her own ground breaking series of sight reading books which is now sold globally: The A - G of Sight Reading for Harp. In 2025 Harriet was commissioned to write sight reading tests for the new ABRSM harp exams and two of her compositions (Break Up and Under the Apple Tree) were also been selected for the 2025 ABRSM harp syllabus as well as her arrangement of Massenet’s Élégie.

Harriet is in demand internationally as an arranger and composer of music for harp students. Some of the ensembles to perform her works include The National Youth Harp Orchestra of Great Britain, the American Youth Harp Ensemble, The Australian Harp Quartet, The Royal Academy of Music Harp Ensemble and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Harp Ensemble.

For more information on Harriet as a performer please visit www.harpist-uk.co.uk