Nathaniel Harrison

Bassoon

Nathaniel Harrison was born in Kent and studied at the Royal College of Music and at Vienna University.

After playing in Opera and Symphony Orchestras in Austria,Germany and the Netherlands he returned to the UK to pursue his passion for the Baroque and Classical Bassoon. Since then he has established a busy career in the Early Music world. He plays regularly with the King's Consort,The Sixteen,The Gabrieli Consort, Ex Cathedra and the London Handel Orchestra. He was also involved in John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata project in 2000.

He now lives up in the hills on a farm just outside Llandeilo with a herd of ancient White Park Cattle. His instrument is a copy by Leslie Ross of a bassoon by the early C18th german maker Georg Henrich Scherer, the original of which is housed in the Metropolitan Museum, New York City.