Born in Madrid and raised in London, Isaac Harari is a multi-talented percussionist and drummer who has been shaping his life around artfully hitting things since the age of seven. His musical training began on the piano at age five, but it was when he began to play the drums two years later that he struck upon the thing he wanted to do for the rest of his life. He began lessons in orchestral and solo percussion in 2011, going on to join the Royal College of Music’s Junior Department in 2017. He was a two-time London finalist in the Yamaha Futurebeat competition in 2017 & 2018. In 2020 he was a BBC Young Musician category finalist, and won a full scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music as an undergraduate that same year. In 2023 Isaac was awarded the prestigious Yamaha Music Europe Foundation Scholarship. He has also been a member of the World Percussion Group artist roster since 2021, a semi-finalist of the Southern California Marimba International Artists’ Competition, and a semi-finalist of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2022. In 2024, Isaac graduated from the RCM, achieving 1st place in the RCM Percussion Competition and receiving the RCM Zildjian Prize for Percussion.
Isaac regularly gives concerts and records with Sirocco Duo and The Pablo Barrios Collective, and has previously appeared with Jam Division and Rothko Collective. He has given solo recitals in the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room and in the RCM as a Gordon Turner Competition finalist, and recitals with Sirocco Duo in St Mary’s, Barnes, and the Cuckfield Music Festival, of programmes including a world premiere. He has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Duet Philharmonic, the RCM Symphony Orchestra and the Sibelius Academy Symphony Orchestra in major venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, The Musiikkitalo in Helsinki, Cadogan Hall, the Purcell Room, St. John's Smith Square and Blackheath Halls. For two years, he was a member of the National Youth Percussion Orchestra. As a drummer, he has performed repeatedly at the 606 Club. He has toured conservatoires throughout Spain, Portugal and the UK with the World Percussion Group. In 2023, the RCM Jazz Orchestra under Mark Armstrong premiered Isaac's original composition, Nightwalker. Isaac was both the 15-18 Group Winner and Overall Winner of the Leonardo Aggio Trust Awards in 2020. Over the years he has been supported by the AYM Chris Isaac Award and the Universal Music UK Sound Foundation, and is an Awards for Young Musicians alumnus, mentoring the Talent to Talent programme in 2021. |