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, based in London and Munich.
Harrison and Parrott entered the artist management business in the 1960s as employees of London-based Ibbs and Tillett Ltd. 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', they set up HarrisonParrott Ltd, working initially from a domestic residence. Adopting a pro-active approach to developing musical careers,
HarrisonParrott has collaborated with other artist management companies in piano and orchestral series at London's Southbank Centre. 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. HarrisonParrott currently has a partnership with the Polyarts company, based in London and Paris. Polyarts 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 and Turkey. Among the company's varied orchestral touring activities has been the Vienna Philharmonic's first-ever visit to Colombia (March 2016).
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.
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'.
Terry Harrison left HarrisonParrott in 1988 to set up Terry Harrison Artist Management, representing such names as Mayumi Fujikawa. The company ceased trading in 2015 (then known as HarrisonTurner Ltd).