Born in Switzerland, Pascal pursued a career in science first, while spending a lot of time doing sport, dance and circus. After graduating with a Masters in Physics and working in the electronics industry, Pascal’s career made a quantum leap. He decided to run away to the circus, turn his hobby into a profession and enrol at a full-time circus school in New Zealand. He graduated in December 2011, specialising in cyr wheel, juggling and acrobalance. Since then he has gained a wealth of international performance experience, enchanting the stages of Circus Aotearoa in New Zealand, "Swiss Christmas” in Zurich, Varieté Et Cetera in Bochum and on board M/S Color Fantasy, to name but a few. In 2014/2015 he toured the UK performing with the Musical Barnum.
Originally from Devon, Harriet studied Orchestral Percussion at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has experience in a range of genres from world music and orchestral, to jazz-funk band Tezeta and contemporary music with New Music in the South West. Harriet had just recorded the debut album with Spindle Ensemble, an alternative, contemporary classical group supported by Adderwell Music. Their album, entitled Bea, will be pressed to vinyl and released October 2017. Harriet works in a number of dance and theatre projects playing solo percussion, most recently for children theatre company Can't Sit Still which has just completed its first Research and Development process for Plink/Boo. Harriet won the Senior Soloist prize for Music in the Vale 2012 and the McGrenery chamber music prize 2014. She is now the composer and musician for projects such as Thimble Theatre and Cyrimba and has been working freelance in Bristol for the past 3 years since she graduated.
HARRIET RILEY
PASCAL HÄRING
