HarrisonParrott

Founded in 1969 by Jasper Parrott and Terry Harrison, HarrisonParrott Ltd is an international artist and project management agency working in the field of classical music and the arts, based in London, Munich and Paris.[1]

Harrison and Parrott entered the artist management business in the 1960s as employees of London-based Ibbs and Tillett Ltd.[2] Deciding that the Ibbs and Tillett style of operation did not allow them to '...forge relationships with individual artists, engaging with them and their ideas and ambitions',[3] they set up HarrisonParrott Ltd, working initially from a domestic residence. Theirs was very much a pro-active approach to developing musical careers.[4]

Terry Harrison left HarrisonParrott in 1988 to set up Terry Harrison Artist Management, representing such names as Mayumi Fujikawa. [5] The company ceased trading in 2015 (then known as HarrisonTurner Ltd). [6] Terry Harrison died early in 2017 at the age of 79. [7]

HarrisonParrott has collaborated with other artist management companies in piano and orchestral series at London's Southbank Centre.[8] One example is the International Piano Series (in partnership with Southbank Centre) which for more than 25 years has presented established names and also provides a London platform for young talent. Southbank Centre schedules for 2017/18 [9] show this series including such pianists as Khatia Buniatishvili, Alice Sara Ott, Víkingur Ólafsson, Benjamin Grosvenor, Bertrand Chamayou, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Maurizio Pollini, Mitsuko Uchida and Stephen Hough.

In 1985 the company was one of the European artist management concerns which founded the European Artists Direct consortium, having the aim of negotiating contracts directly with concert promoters in North America.[10] HarrisonParrott currently has a partnership with the Polyarts company, based in London and Paris.[11] Polyarts[12] works across a range of musical genres and types of performing space.

HarrisonParrott has operated in several territories under-developed in classical music terms, including various Latin American countries, Asia and Turkey[13]. Among the company's varied orchestral touring activities has been the Vienna Philharmonic's first-ever visit to Colombia (March 2016)[14] [15]. HarrisonParrott managed the Minnesota Orchestra's visit to Cuba in 2015-the first visit by a US orchestra since President Barack Obama took steps to normalise relations between the two countries in December 2014 [16] [17]. HarrisonParrott-facilitated tours to China have featured strongly: the Boston Symphony Orchestra's return to the country in 2014 (for the first time since 1979-a trip that also embraced the orchestra's first visit to Japan in 15 years)[18]; two tours of China by the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre company, in 2014 and 2016; and a 2015 visit by the Trondheim Soloists which celebrated the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Norway and China[19].

HarrisonParrott also acts as a creative partner - including artistic planning, project management, marketing and sponsorship - for cultural institutions. These include the London Chamber Orchestra[20], Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Tiroler Festspiele Erl [21], Marvão International Music Festival[22], Estonian Festival Orchestra[23], Gothenburg Symphony, Le Balcon and Soundforms[24]. Previous partnerships also include Harpa Hall (Reykjavik)[25], Britten in Japan[26] and Polska! Year[27]. HarrisonParrott’s relationship with Turkey goes back to the 1990s: in 2004, the company co-presented Şimdi Now – a festival of Turkish culture in Berlin[28], and in 2010 was consultant to La Saison de la Turquie, celebrating Turkish culture across France[29].

Reflecting the global nature of its business, the company has become increasingly multilingual. According to a 2012 report in Classical Music magazine, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Swedish were all spoken at HarrisonParrott's west London offices.[30]

In 2015, HarrisonParrott executive chairman Jasper Parrott received the Association of British Orchestras/Rhinegold Artist Manager of the Year award '...in particular [for] HarrisonParrott’s work both with the Philharmonia Orchestra on a complex tour of South America and with the London Chamber Orchestra, whose management has been brought in-house'.[31][32]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.iamaworld.com/directory/harrison-parrott-ltd_100356.aspx?DirectorySearchPageId=13
  2. ↑ Fifield, Christopher (2005). Ibbs & Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 325–334. ISBN 1-84014-290-1.
  3. ↑ "Jasper Parrott". Classical Music. 21 January 2006.
  4. ↑ "A Dollop of HP". Classical Music. 19 December 1991.
  5. ↑ "Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance: Mayumi Fujikawa".
  6. ↑ "Terry Harrison is a unique character in artist management". Classical Music. April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Obituary: Terry Harrison. 'Ebullient music agent who presented the skull of one of his clients to the Royal Shakespeare Company'". The Times. 4 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "Southbank Centre".
  9. ↑ "Southbank Centre: International Piano Series 2017/18". Southbank Centre.
  10. ↑ "The Agency Angle". Classical Music. 14 September 1985.
  11. ↑ "New link, new label". Classical Music. March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Polyarts".
  13. ↑ "International Relations". Classical Music. April 2013.
  14. ↑ "Vienna Philharmonic Tour USA-Colombia-Brasil".
  15. ↑ "Wiener Philharmoniker – Austria - Director: Valery Gergiev – Rusia". Teatro Mayor, Bogota.
  16. ↑ Baker, Peter (17 December 2014). "U.S. to Restore Full Relations With Cuba, Erasing a Last Trace of Cold War Hostility". New York Times.
  17. ↑ Cooper, Michael (16 May 2015). "Minnesota Orchestra, in Groundbreaking Cuba Tour, Sells Out House". New York Times.
  18. ↑ Eichler, Jeremy (3 May 2014). "Back after 35 years, BSO gets warm welcome in China". Boston Globe.
  19. ↑ "Trondheim Soloists". National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing. 2017.
  20. ↑ ""Artist Manager News"". Classical Music. October 2015.
  21. ↑ ""A consultancy centred around international strategy and programming for the Tiroler Festspiele Erl"". HarrisonParrott.
  22. ↑ "Guardian Witness: "Marvão International Music Festival"". Guardian.
  23. ↑ ""Estonian Festival Orchestra"". Pärnu Music Festival.
  24. ↑ Showley, Roger (12 January 2016). ""Symphony bayfront site gets initial OK from port"". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
  25. ↑ Moore, Rowan (28 August 2011). ""Reykjavik's dazzling new concert hall basks in the reflective glory of Olafur Eliasson's inspired design"". The Guardian.
  26. ↑ Cooke, Mervyn (2001). Britten and the Far East: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten. UK: Boyell Press. ISBN 0851158307.
  27. ↑ Brown, Mark (8 March 2010). ""Nigel Kennedy lines up soundtrack to 1973 England v Poland game"". The Guardian.
  28. ↑ ""Capturing Turkish Culture's Changing Face"". DW: Made for Minds. 2004.
  29. ↑ ""Saison de la Turquie en France"". La France en Turquie.
  30. ↑ "Language Matters". Classical Music. 10 March 2012.
  31. ↑ http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/01/aborhinegold-awards-announced-with-sir-mark-elder-winning-overall-abo-gong/
  32. ↑ "Jasper Parrott | ABO/Rhinegold awards - Rhinegold". rhinegold.oilinternet.com. Retrieved 2015-12-14.
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