NEWS & CONCERTS

July-August 2025 / OPERA DE BAUGÉ

Principal Timpani & Percussion with Opera de Baugé

2025 season

March 2025 / 1st PRIZE IN FANNY MENDELSSOHN COMPETITION

Isaac Harari wins first prize in the Fanny Mendelssohn International Online Competition IV edition in the Marimba, Xylophone and Vibraphone category.

THE PABLO BARRIOS QUARTET

Live Latin jazz at Piano Bar Soho or Alfie's Soho each week.

March 2025 / UPRISING AT GLYNDEBOURNE

Onstage percussion in the community opera at Glyndebourne - 
Uprising​ by Jonathan Dove (world premiere)
"TEMPLE" - MARIMBA SOLO BY ISAAC HARARI
Temple for solo marimba is now available from Tapspace publishing as both digital download and physical score.

Aug & Sept 2024 / BBC PROMS & HELSINKI FESTIVAL

RCM SO & Sibelius Academy SO

Principal percussion Isaac Harari & Donatien Conversat

Conductor Sakari Oramo

Jean Sibelius - The Wood Nymph

Lara Poe - Songs from the Countryside (WP)

Gustav Holst - The Planets

Royal Albert Hall, London & Musiikkitalo, Helsinki


2023-24 / YMEF SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

Isaac Harari wins a prestigious Yamaha Music Europe Foundation Scholarship at a live final in the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.

July 2024 / DEAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, NYJO LATIN COLLECTIVE

14-piece NYJO ensemble performs a high-tempo Latin-infused programme, exploring everything from Salsa sounds to Afro-Cuban Jazz


 June 2024 / THE STRAND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC SERIES

Isaac Harari, percussion

Jasper Eaglesfield - Never Safe‘ for solo snare drum

Jasper Eaglesfield - Never Asleep‘ for solo vibraphone

St Mary le Strand, London


April 2024 / WORLD PREMIERE "MANY HANDS IN HIGH PLACES"

Sirocco Duo (Isaac Harari & Toril Azzalini-Machecler) with the RCM Philharmonic premier Jasper Eaglesfield's new double percussion concerto. ​

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March 2024 / NEW COMPOSITION "TECHNIUM"

PREMIERED BY PERCUSSION QUARTET PERC'M

"Technium" by Isaac Harari 

​Percussion Showcase, Royal College of Music, London

Oct & Nov 2023 / TOUR - UK, SPAIN & PORTUGAL

WITH THE WORLD PERCUSSION GROUP

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Oct 2023 / "NIGHTWALKER" PREMIERE,

RCM JAZZ ORCHESTA

"Nightwalker" for Big Band by Isaac Harari

Britten Theatre, London

June & July 2023 / "BARNUM'S BIRD"

OPERA by LIBBY LARSEN 

Conductor: Michael Rosewell

Percussion Principal: Isaac Harari

Britten Theatre, London.

June 2023 / IC BIG BAND

Jazz Cafe Posk, London

Drums: Isaac Harari

Director: Chris Dean

May 2023 / SIROCCO DUO, REICH'S QUARTET

Steve Reich Quartet

Vibraphone: Isaac Harari, Toril Azzalini

Piano: Alexander Doronin, Francisco Couto

Royal College of Music, London

April 2023 / PEGASUS OPERA

Philip Hagemann Ruth & The Six of Calais

Isaac Harari, Toril Azzalini-Machecler Percussion 

Susi Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London

March 2023 / RCM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor: Vasily Petrenko

Bacewicz Overture

Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto no 1 in A minor op 33

R Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra op 30

2 March 2023 / RCM PHILHARMONIC

Percussion Principal: Isaac Harari

Joan Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman

John Adams A Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Barber Adagio for Strings

Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Feb 2023 / RCM JAZZ ORCHESTRA

BASIE AND BEYOND - Swing, blues, and funk-inspired music from the 1950's to the present day. With trumpet player and jazz singer Georgina Jackson.

Britten Theatre, London

June 2022 / SIROCCO DUO RECITAL

ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Dave Maric Shapeshifter

Ravel (arr Safri Duo) Alborada Del Gracioso

Benjamin Holmes Crossing

Toril Azzalini-Machecler and Isaac Harari Improvisation

Steve Reich Quartet

Nov 2022 / JAM DIVISION - LIVE IN OXFORD ​

St. John's College Bar, Oxford

Bassist Ozan Erder, Drummer Isaac Harari & Pianist Gabriel Margolis play two sets of original compositions.

Nov 2022 / PERCUSSION SHOWCASE

Royal College of Music, London

Oct 2022 / RCM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Principal percussion Isaac Harari

Conductor Adrian Partington

Liszt Piano Concerto no 2

Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony


Oct 2022 / BBC YOUNG JAZZ MUSICIAN

Selected through to the semi-finals of ​the BBCYJM competition ​on drum-kit.

Sept 2022 / LEGALLY BLONDE, PERCUSSIONIST

South London Youth Theatre.

Isaac Harari Percussion

June 2022 / SIROCCO DUO - CUCKFIELD MUSIC FESTIVAL

Isaac Harari & Toril Azzalini-Machecler (Sirocco Duo) play works by  Tomer Yariv, Nebojša Jovan Živkovic, Maurice RavelPaco de Lucía, Jack Ledger-Dowser.

June 2022 / ROTHKO COLLECTIVE LIVE

Recording at The state51 Conservatoire, Shoreditch.

June 2022 / JONATHAN DOVE'S "FLIGHT"

Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music.


"The busyness of the bustling was complemented by the vivacity of the instrumental playing which was bursting with energy and colour ... from the nineteen-strong RCM Orchestra." ​Claire Seymour, OPERA TODAY

May 2022 / SWALEDALE MUSIC FESTIVAL

HIGH WIRE BAROQUE: Improvisation on Purcell, Bach and Vivaldi.

50th ANNIVERSARY GALA CONCERT: Handel's Messiah

Isaac Harari Timpani.

Oct 2022 / SIROCCO DUO - DEBUT RECITAL

Sirocco Duo (Isaac Harari & Toril Azzalini-Machecler) debut with a recital at St Mary's, Barnes. 

https://www.cherubimtrust.org/post/sirocco-duo-sizzle-in-south-london-debut

Feb 2022 / ROTHKO COLLECTIVE WINS NON-CLASSICAL BATTLE OF THE BANDS

MOTH Club, Hackney

Caroline Shaw - Boris Kerner for cello and flower pots.

Dominic Stokes - Origami

Adjudicated by: Rebeca Omordia, Mira Calix, Alan Davey, Natalia Franklin Pierce and Gabriel Prokofiev.

JAN 2022 / RCM JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Guest: Clare Teal

Conductor: Mark Armstrong

Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music.

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Dec 2021 / JAZZ CAROLS

METHODIST CENTRAL HALL, LONDON

With saxophonist Dan Forshaw and the Jazz Vespers group with the London Jazz Choir. Methodist Central Hall.​

Isaac Harari Drum-kit

June 2021 / SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARIMBA COMPETITION

International Artist Competition Semi-finalist.

2021 / WORLD PERCUSSION GROUP

World Percussion Group 2021 artists' roster.

Sept 2021 / JAM DIVISION - LIVE IN CHISWICK

Bassist Ozan Erder, Drummer Isaac Harari & Pianist Gabriel Margolis play two sets of original compositions.

March 2020 / BBC YOUNG MUSICIAN PERCUSSION FINALIST

Percussion Finalist at the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition.

Feb 2020 / SOLO RECITAL, ROYAL ALBERT HALL ELGAR ROOM

Works by Guy G. Gauthreaux II, Sergei Golovko and Michio Kitazume.