Harri Harding

Harri Harding is an award-winning trans composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator. He co-composed and recorded the “Thunderbloom” album with H055EI and Nahid at his studio in Marrickville. He has worked with artists such as Hermitude, Milan Ring, Mo’Ju and Urthboy. Harri studied music composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with minor studies in Arabic language and pedagogy, and has also specialised in the studies of Arabic and Ethiopian music in Palestine and Ethiopia with Sameh Asad, Ali Hasanein and Feleke Hailu. In 2020, Harri scored and conducted the orchestra at Sydney Opera House for Ziggy Ramo’s “Black Thoughts”, and reimagined Urthboy’s live show as musical director. He put together a new project with Zindzi Okenyo for Sydney Festival called Zindzi and The Zillionaires, and his all female and trans Sirens Big Band won Jazz Performance of the Year at the APRA Art Music Awards for their collaboration with Sandy Evans, Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan: “Bridge of Dreams”. In 2023 and 2024, Harri co-wrote and produced albums including Bobby’s Singh’s “Sutradar”, Benny Time’s “Benny’s Garden” and the debut album of Marcus Prasad. Harri has dedicated much of his career to working with children, as band director and composer-in-residence at Newtown Primary School as well as leading the literacy-through-creativity program through “Lost in Books” for newly arrived refugee families in Fairfield and Liverpool.