Damian Harron
PhD
Dr Damien Harron is a co-founder of BackBeat Percussion Quartet with which he has received numerous awards including the Royal Overseas League Ensemble Prize (UK), the Concert Artists Guild Prize (USA) and the Gold medal at the Osaka Chamber Music Festa (Japan).
These awards have led to major international concert tours, including five tours of Japan and concerts in Merkin Hall and Weill Hall, New York, featuring many of Damien’s compositions. As a soloist he has gained a reputation as an adventurous performer of new music with a special interest in the commissioning and performance of theatrical works. He has also developed his interests in a great many global styles of percussion playing to gain a reputation as an extremely versatile and imaginative percussionist.
Damien is also a member of the new music groups Black Hair and Decibel and appears regularly as a soloist with both groups. Damien received his PhD in composition from the University of York in 2008. As a composer, Damien’s work often explores what he considers to be the human element of performance in terms of physicality and theatre. Harron has made recordings for Mode, NMC, NonClassical and Tzadik labels among others. Damien was appointed Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Studies and Research Centre in July 2011.
www.damienharron.com
d.harron@lcm.ac.uk