Lambrakis Harris was born in Athens in 1976 and started music at a very young age. He graduated from the Pallini Music High School and the Department of Music Studies (University of Athens).

His first music teacher was his father, the painter Giorgos Lambrakis. He studied music under M. Mavroidis and Th.Varsou, ney under Sylvia Koutrouli and Ömer Erdoğdular, composition under Yannis Ioannidis and byzantine music under I. Arvanitis and V. Baraboutis. 

He has worked with internationally distinguished artists such as Savina Yannatou, Bijan Chemirami, Domna Samiou, Michalis Siganidis, Haig Yazdjian, Ross Daly and others. Moreover, he has been a member of numerous groups (Primavera en Salonico, Oneira, Occasional Dream, Project 37 etc.).

Harris Lambrakis has participated in more than 150 albums as a performer and composer and in numerous concerts in Greece and abroad on traditional, jazz, ethnic, contemporary and improvisational music. He has also composed music for theatre. Except ney, he also plays piano and hammond organ.

Since 2000 he has been teaching ney in conservatories in Athens. In 2006 he founded Harris Lambrakis Quartet releasing its debut album "Thea" in 2010.