Harriet Burns

An acclaimed interpreter of song, Harriet Burns has performed at Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Luxembourg, de Singel with Graham Johnson, Oxford International Song Festival with Imogen Cooper and Sholto Kynoch, Leeds Song with Joseph Middleton, Ryedale Festival with Christopher Glynn and Salle Bourgie with Ian Tindale. With her regular duo-partner Ian Tindale, they released Schubert Lieder: Love’s Lasting Power and A Short Story of Falling to critical acclaim with Delphian Records. Her debut album was Brahms: The Complete Songs vol.8 with Graham Johnson for Hyperion Records, and she looks forward to the release of Schumann’s Myrtles with Nick Pritchard and Christopher Glynn for Signum Records in 2026.

On the operatic stage, roles include Susanna (cover, Susanna, Handel) for Opera North, Berta (cover, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini) for West Green House Opera, King Harald's Saga (Judith Weir) for Waterperry Opera, Sifare (cover, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Mozart) and Oriana (cover, Amadigi, Handel) for Garsington Opera. In concert, she has sung Thea Musgrave Songs for a Winter's Evening with the Southbank Sinfonia and Gabriella Teychenné, Handel and Mozart arias with Michael Bawtree at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Dixit Dominus with Nicholas McGegan and the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead and Handel Messiah with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Harriet recently gave her recital debut at the Barbican Hall as part of the Classical Pride festival with Jonathan Eyers and Edward Picton-Turbervill. 

Harriet is an alumna of the City Music Foundation and in 2023 was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. 

Updated September 2025