about

Jo Harris

Jo studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating in 2005. As a founding member of the chamber group Bella Tromba Jo has performed at Southbank’s Purcell Room, Cheltenham Music Festival and for BBC Radio 3. In 2010 Jo was a Guest Artist at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Toronto, Canada.
Solo performances include concerti by Vivaldi, Haydn, Hummel and Arutunian. She recently gave a rare performance of the Capricorn Concerto by Samuel Barber at the Presteigne Festival. As an orchestral player Jo plays for the London Mozart Players, Britten Sinfonia, the Orchestra of St Johns’, the National Symphony Orchestra, Brandenburg Sinfonia and the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra. Bella Tromba’s success as Park Lane Group Young Artists in 2007 sparked an interest in Contemporary music. This led to commissioned works by Howard Skempton, Giles Easterbrook, Paul Whitmarsh and Susanne Erding Swiridoff. Jo gave the Premiere of Broken Song for Solo Trumpet by Paul Max Edlin at the Warehouse for Edwin Roxburgh’s birthday celebrations in 2008 and is currently working on a collaborative dance project to be performed at Sadler’s Wells.
As a Live Music Now Fellow, Jo now mentors new groups on the scheme and has given presentations on behalf of LMN.  She has played for the London Symphony Orchestra’s Outreach branch, LSO Discovery and performed Terry Riley’s In C in a Creative Learning project for the Britten Sinfonia.