about

Jo Harris

Jo studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating in 2005. As a founder member of Bella Tromba Jo has performed at Southbank’s Purcell Room, Cheltenham Music Festival, for BBC Radio 3 and as a Guest Artist at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Toronto, Canada.

Solo performances include concerti by Vivaldi, Haydn, Hummel and Arutunian and 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 New London 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 has recorded new works by Peter Longworth and Hugo Ribiero.

Jo currently mentors new groups for Live Music Now and is a member of the LMN London Steering Commitee. 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.

Jo’s interest in programming, audiences and musicians themselves has led to a passion for concert management. She currently works for Spitalfields Music, Hyperion Records and London Baroque Sinfonia as a freelance concert manager. She has raised funds for Bella Tromba from RVW Trust, Britten Pears Foundation and Denis Wick Ltd.