Audrey Harrer is a composer/vocalist/harpist whose work is a blend of melodic wordplay, detailed arrangements, and processed instruments. She collaborates with chamber groups, experiments with music technologists, and rethinks the concert experience. Audrey cares about process, community, and the arts as a means to create connection.
Based in Los Angeles, Harrer grew up in rural Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. She moved to Boston to study music composition and voice at Berklee College of Music, subsequently adopting the harp as a creative tool for self-accompaniment and sonic exploration. She has written pieces for a variety of organizations including the Cambridge Philharmonic, Peabody Essex Museum, and the Maine International Film Festival, and she has collaborated with ensembles such as Verdant Vibes and Hub New Music. Harrer was recently an artist-in-residence at Boston Center for the Arts where she created a multi-sensory musical installation for the Mills Gallery called Lavender. She performs nationally with her electroacoustic harp and loop pedal in environments as varied as rock clubs, museums, DIY venues, and recital halls.
Her self-released album Alphabet Rain received critical praise, and she is currently in the final stages of production for her follow-up LP titled Memory Banks.
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“Her songs rarely stay in one place, shifting with wild abandon and circuitous wordplay that collectively build a web of intrigue on her debut album. A harpist, composer, and songwriter based in Jamaica Plain, Harrer pitches her work somewhere between classical composition and the experimental pop of Kate Bush and Björk.” [James Reed - BOSTON GLOBE]
"...an art-pop singer/harpist whose mellifluous work will surely appeal to admirers of Shara Nova and Joanna Newsom." [Steve Smith - National Sawdust's THE LOG JOURNAL Newsletter]
“Audrey Harrer’s debut studio release shimmers with six poetic compositions where she uses her harp to shape playful, cinematic structures… Harrer has done the impossible: make intricate compositions relaxed in their reveals.” [Nina Corcoran - DIG BOSTON]
"...her lysergic, complexly textured chamber pop compositions favor detached, intellectual cool..." [Matthew Dinaro - METRO]
For all inquiries, email alphabetrain[at]gmail.com. It would be lovely to hear from you.
