Stroud Jazz Club

Friday 20th November, 8pm

The jam is hosted by Stroud Jazz Collective and Stroud Valleys Artspace and has been born out of the former Stroud Jazz Sessions, celebrated for over a decade in Stroud.

Harriet Riley is a British Percussionist and Composer based in Bristol. With a broad range of percussion disciplines, Harriet plays in many settings including orchestral, classical, jazz and contemporary music. Long established chamber quartet Spindle Ensemble featured in The Guardian’s Top 10 Contemporary Classical albums of 2021 and collaborated with Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan in Toronto. Harriet also plays with alt pop project Stevie Toddler on vibraphone and percussion which featured on Guy Garvey, BBC Radio6 and Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2.

Harriet regularly plays with Charles Hazlewood’s Paraorchestra and has performed with them in Australia and Russia as well as at the Barbican and Bluedot Festival in UK with Hannah Peel. She has also played with BBC NOW, Multi-storey Orchestra and the Novello orchestra. Harriet studies Balinese Gamelan and regularly goes back to Bali to learn and play Gender Wayang, a chamber music gamelan used for ceremonies and shadow puppetry.

Harriet’s solo percussion credits include Hidden Notes contemporary music festival in Stroud and a percussion concerto "Heartbeat" by William Goodchild with Bristol Symphony Orchestra. She is also an official artist with Malletech. Harriet is a busy performing and recording artist and has been freelancing since 2014. All are invited to these sessions - whether you’d like to play or just listen and enjoy.

Further information: www.stroudjazzclub.com

Tickets : Pay what you can £6 / £8 / £10