I was born in Southport, Lancashire to music-loving parents. There had been professional musicians on both sides of the family in previous generations. My father’s eldest brother was the composer and conductor Julius Harrison. Having heard a neighbour›s child play the piano, I was keen to do likewise and started lessons at the age of four. At the age of eleven I joined the piano class of Prof. Bruno Seidlhofer at the Academy of Music in Vienna and gained the Performer›s Diploma at the age of seventeen. On returning to England, I continued my studies with Gordon Green at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where I also met my future husband, violinist Edward Davies.

My career has consisted mainly of working as an accompanist and chamber musician, appearing many times on radio and TV. As resident accompanist at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and Congress for 25 years, I accompanied competitors and gave recitals with many of the world’s leading violists. I accompanied Masterclasses at the Britten Pears School at Snape Maltings and worked for many years as accompanist at Bangor University. Festival appearances have included those at Kings Lynn, St Asaph, the Two Moors Festival, Banff, Buckingham Summer Festival, the Northern Aldborough Festival, the Glamorgan Festival, the Beaumaris Festival and both the National and International Eisteddfods in Wales.

In 2006 I gave a performance of Gareth Leyshon›s Three Preludes in Salle Pleyel in Paris, which won the composer the coveted Prix de Concours.

Since 1992 I have played in a successful piano duet partnership with my eldest son Harvey. Many contemporary composers have written works for us, most of which have been recorded on CD by myself and Harvey.

My hands feature as a double for Dame Maggie Smith’s in Nick Hytner’s film of Alan Bennett’s play The Lady in the Van.

I played for many years in a violin and piano duo with my husband Edward and in a duo with bassist Bronwen Naish and have also worked with the Maurizi Ensemble, the Devas Piano Trio, the Lydian Trio, Ensemble Cymru, the Pleyel Ensemble, the Shelburne Trio and the Redgate Wind Ensemble. The Welsh language touring company Opra Cymru was founded in 2010 and I worked with them as repetiteur and pianist until 2019.

In November 2022, Laurence and I were invited to give a performance of the Horn Sonata by Austrian/American composer Eugene Hartzell in Vienna for the Hartzell Society. Together with violinist Eleanor Wilkinson, we also performed Hartzell’s Horn Trio A Little Light Music.