HARRIET PETHERICK BUSHMAN

Harriet Petherick Bushman is an award-winning composer of instrumental and vocal music for both theatre and the concert stage.

Harriet was trained as a concert pianist at the Royal Academy of Music in London, in Florence and Lausanne. After several years of touring as a soloist and chamber musician she began to compose work to include in her programmes.

She writes in many different styles and is currently concentrating on musical theatre: The Invisible Monkey (New End Theatre, London 2003/4), The Dream Dealer (Edinburgh Festival, 2006), The Rhythm Method (Venue Theatre, London 2006). Her most recent work, the concert opera, 1856:Long Walk Home, told the story of travelers to the American West who are caught in early winter storms and suffer terrible privations before being rescued. It was performed in the summer of 2006 in USA and filmed for television broadcast.

A number of her works have been performed in Kuwait, in partnership with BAIA director, Alison Shan Price, including: The Dream Dealer, The Little Prince and Othello. She has also been a pillar of the AMG Orchestra for The Pirates of Penzance, West Side Story and The Mikado.

In her spare time she designs silk apparel for her company Agapanthus, in order to fund her summer theatre programme in England.