Award-winning harpist Heather Brooks completed her final year on the Artists' Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Distinction, where she studied with Professor Imogen Barford. Supporting her studies she has won the Musicians' Company David Goldman Award and awards from the Tillett, Colin Keer and Robert Bouffler Trusts, as well as a Government Music and Dance Scheme Scholarship to attend The Purcell School for Young Musicians.

Since the beginning of 2026, Heather has won the North London Young Musician of the Year competition and been awarded the Patricia Prindl Prize 2026 by the Musicians’ Company in recognition of her participation and outreach work. She has also been awarded the harp position in the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) Future First Orchestral Scheme for 2026/27. In November 2025, Heather won Silver Prize in the Senior Category at the Seventh International Harp Competition in Hungary, having previously won First Prize in the Senior Category at the United Kingdom Harp Competition in 2025. In May 2024, Heather made her debut at Barbican Hall, performing Ginastera’s Harp Concerto as a finalist in the Guildhall Gold Medal Competition. In 2021, she performed as a soloist with the Guildhall Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein, presenting Roxanna Panufnik’s Harp Concerto: Powers and Dominions at Milton Court Concert Hall. The following year, Heather won the City of Szeged Prize at the Sixth International Harp Competition in Hungary and was selected for the London Sinfonietta Academy for 2022–2023. In 2023, she was selected for the harp position at the Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander and has since recorded with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Heather is also an active and sought-after chamber musician. In 2024, she was invited to accompany Guildhall Recital Prize winner Ana-Carmen Balestra at Wigmore Hall. She also performed with her chamber ensemble, Trio Farben, as part of the Manchester Mid-Day Concerts at Bridgewater Hall. More recently, Trio Farben was awarded a place on the Britten Pears Young Artist Chamber Residency course for 2024/25, supported by the H. Steven and P. E. Wood Bursary.

Heather began learning the harp at age ten with Daphne Boden and went on to win the Purcell School Student Showcase, performing at the Wigmore Hall.  In July 2015, Heather was awarded the long-term loan of the Charles Steer Promenaders' Salvi Aurora Harp by the Cherubim Music Trust. As section leader of the National Youth Harp Orchestra, she premiered her own composition, World Harp Symphony, at St George's Chapel, Windsor.