Bundanon

Harri Harding is an award-winning composer, music teacher, community arts worker and trans activist. Harding and his collaborator Milan Ring are founding members of Sirens Big Band and have been collaboratively composing for both Sirens and various primary school bands since 2010. Ring and Harding are both involved in Sirens’ “Women in Harmony” project: a weekly music session with elderly refugee women from Iraq and Afghanistan living in Fairfield.

At Bundanon together, Harding and Milan Ring compased collaboratively for 2 hours a day, writing new works for primary school bands. For the rest of the time, Ring focused on producing her newest release with Marcello Maio, while Harding developed an Arabic-English music method book to be used in settlement projects for newly arrived refugees in Australia.