After reading History at UCL, Charlotte was offered a postgraduate scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, with additional awards from Help Musicians UK and the Biddy Baxter and John Hosier Music Trust. At the Academy she studied recorder with Anna Stegmann and baroque violin with Nicolette Moonen, graduating with a Distinction and a DipRAM award for oustanding performance.
In 2012, Charlotte became the first recorder player in the BBC Young Musician’s history to win the woodwind category. She went on to perform in the concerto final with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, broadcast live from The Glasshouse (Gateshead). Later highlights have included projects with the English Chamber Orchestra and Academy of Ancient Music, recitals across the UK and internationally, appearances on Radio 3’s In Tune and Early Music Show, and multiple composer collaborations.
A keen ensemble musician, Charlotte co-founded Parandrus in 2017. With repertoire spanning from the 12th Century to new commissions, the ensemble has won awards in the UK and the Netherlands, and has been featured on BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show and Early Music Now.
Charlotte has also been lucky to work closely with harpsichordist, jazz pianist and composer David Gordon, premiering his recorder concerto, Romanesque, at the Ryedale Festival with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
As a violinist, Charlotte is a founding member of the Chineke! Orchestra. She has worked on projects ranging from Chineke!’s 2017 BBC Proms debut and five of the orchestra’s album recordings, to a collaboration with DJ and producer Carl Craig at the Royal Albert Hall.
As a session musician, Charlotte has performed live with The Good, the Bad and the Queen (Damon Albarn; Paul Simonon; Simon Tong; Tony Allen) on Later with Jools Holland, and with Yebba and Mark Ronson on Strictly Come Dancing.
Alongside performing, Charlotte has written programme notes for the Chineke! Orchestra's concert audiences since 2018, and had a great time working behind the scenes at Tandem Productions for three years as a broadcast assistant. She has also twice been a guest presenter on BBC Radio 3’s Inside Music.
Charlotte's interests span from concert programmes to computer programs, and she is currently a software engineering apprentice with the BBC. When she's not editing code files, she is available as a recorder player for virtual collaborations, and as a violinist for both in-person and virtual projects.
Charlotte remains grateful for the professional support of the following organisations and individuals:
- The Young Classical Artists Trust
- The Biddy Baxter and John Hosier Music Trust
- Help Musicians UK
- The Walter Bergmann Fund
- Clive and Adam Summerhayes