Harriet Burns is in demand for her singing both in recital and on stage. An acclaimed interpreter of song, Harriet has performed at Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Luxembourg and de Singel with Graham Johnson, Oxford International Song Festival with Imogen Cooper and Sholto Kynoch, Leeds Song with Joseph Middleton and Ryedale Festival with Christopher Glynn. Harriet regularly works with Ian Tindale, with whom she released Schubert Lieder: Love’s Lasting Power and A Short Story of Falling, both with Delphian Records, to critical acclaim. 

On the operatic stage, recent roles include Susanna (cover for the title role, Handel) for Opera North, Berta (cover, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini) for West Green House Opera, King Harald's Saga (Judith Weir) for Waterperry Opera, Sifare (cover, Mitridate, re di Ponto, Mozart) and Oriana (cover, Amadigi, Handel) for Garsington Opera. In concert, she has sung Thea Musgrave Songs for a Winter's Evening with the Southbank Sinfonia and Gabriella Teychenné, Handel and Mozart arias with Michael Bawtree at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Bach Magnificat and Vivaldi Dixit Dominus with Nicholas McGegan and the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead and Handel Messiah with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. 

In 2023 was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Harriet is proud to be a singing teacher for Frideswide Voices, and a vocal coach at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.