Glasgow-based multi-instrumentalist Harry Górski-Brown is known for his innovative blend of electroacoustic and traditional music. In 2024, he released a tape with Glasgow label GLARC, Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats, featuring settings of traditional Scottish Gaelic songs. Originally trained in traditional music, whilst studying violin performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he soon gravitated toward experimental composition, exploring new sonic landscapes with both traditional and electronic instruments. Górski-Brown won the Craig Armstrong Prize for RCS composer graduates and was named one of Nonclassical’s Artists in Residence (2023). In 2024, he became a Cryptic Artist.
Recent projects include Elephant, you shake your sheep!, Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats I.Been a badboy:- cut me loose_ and FISHER PRICE PIPES, meanwhile, offers a fresh fusion of Gàidhlig songs for voice, small pipes, and electronics.
Outside of solo work, Górski-Brown performs in two duos: Josiah & Ludwig, a contemporary fiddle and guitar folk partnership, and noise.pocket, an experimental collaboration with wordsmith Paddy Hog. He also plays fiddle with Shetland saxophonist Norman Willmore and works with Scots singer, Quinie.
A versatile composer, Górski-Brown has collaborated with groups like the Nevis Ensemble and COMA (Glasgow and Sheffield), and was nominated for a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award (2018) with Josiah & Ludwig. His performances include Sonica Glasgow, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Unsound Kraków, Météo Festival (FR), Ancienne Belgique (BE), Night of Surprise (DE) and Southbank Centre, London.
