The concert will be in the club's new venue, Christ Church, Old Market Avenue, Chichester.
"We have got some new pieces that we want to try out for some recitals around the Caribbean next year," Harriet explains.
They will doubtless show the hug
e variety of which modern harps are more than capable.
"Harps used to be quite limited back in the 1850s, but the modern-day concert harp can play pretty much anything.
"I first heard the harp when I was very young and I just really loved the sound. I said that that was what I wanted to play."
And so, a couple of years later – a lapse of time to make sure she was in earnest – she began to learn.
"It's very difficult to explain what it is about it. You either have an affinity for an instrument or you don't. For me it was just the right sound. I can't really put it more eloquently than that. I love the sound of the cello, but I am not sure that that would make it my instrument. You just have to have that affinity."
Harriet went on to become an instrumental exhibitioner at Balliol College, Oxford where she read music. She continued her studies with Imogen Barford at Trinity College of Music, supported by awards from the Musician's Benevolent Fund, the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
As a soloist she has given many recitals at major London venues including St Martin's-in-the-Fields, the National Gallery and St James's Palace. She has appeared at the Swaledale Festival, toured the Mediterranean aboard the QE2, and has performed concertos with orchestras including the Dart Festival Orchestra and the Ten Tors Orchestra.
Mixing chamber and orchestral, she has been free-lancing for the past five years. Her ensemble playing has been broadcast on Classic FM, BBC Radio 2 and (for the 2007 British Composer Awards) BBC Radio 3.
For Chichester, Harriet will present a varied programme of music by herself, plus arrangements and pieces by Bach, Tournier, Glinka and Grandjany. Visitors £7, members £4.50.
