Mark Harris
Mark Harris is best known by preschoolers Australia wide as Buzz the Bandleader in TV shows Lah-Lah’s Adventures and Lah-Lah’s Stripy Sock Club broadcast by ABC TV, featuring the band Lah-Lah that he leads with wife and co-star Tina. For older audiences, Mark is the comedic singing double bassist in triple ARIA winning world music band Monsieur Camembert and performs with Abby Dobson (Leonardo’s Bride) and Lara Goodridge (Fourplay) in French nightclub band Baby et Lulu.
A Masters graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Jazz department, Mark has also performed, recorded and or toured with the Wiggles, James Morrison, Emma Pask, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sierra Boggess, Rhonda Burchmore and Tom Burlinson, and has performed in the Sydney productions of Crazy For You, My Fair Lady, Annie, The Boy From Oz, Chicago, Wicked, Fame, Jersey Boys, The Lion King, and Aladdin. On stage, Mark performs in venues nationally with Lah-Lah and also worked alongside Tim Rogers and Bojana Novakovic in The Importance Of Mary Maclane By Herself for Griffin Theatre Co.
As a composer, Mark wrote an album of original jazz – Entrée – for his quartet Mark4. He also co-composed the score for the stage adaptation of Oliver Jeffers’ book The Book Eating Boy with wife Tina for CDP Theatre Producers as well as the music for Lah-Lah’s six albums, two of which were nominated for ARIA awards.