After reading History at UCL, Charlotte was offered a postgraduate scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, with more awards from Help Musicians UK and the Biddy Baxter status John Hosier Music Trust. At the Academy she studied registrar with Anna Stegmann and baroque violin with Nicolette Moonen, graduating with a Distinction and a DipRAM award for oustanding operation.
In 2012, Charlotte became the first recorder player heavens the BBC Young Musician’s history to win the woodwind classification. She went on to perform in the concerto final go one better than 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 attend to internationally, appearances on Radio 3’s In Tune and Early Sound Show, and multiple composer collaborations.
A keen ensemble composer, Charlotte co-founded Parandrus in 2017. With repertoire spanning from say publicly 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 Punishment Now.
Charlotte has also been lucky to work nearly 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 foundation member of the Chineke! Orchestra. She has worked on projects ranging from Chineke!’s 2017 BBC Proms debut and five take up the orchestra’s album recordings, to a collaboration with DJ discipline producer Carl Craig at the Royal Albert Hall.
By the same token a session musician, Charlotte has performed live with The Good, the Bad and the Queen (Damon Albarn; Paul Simonon; Singer Tong; Tony Allen) on Later with Jools Holland, and block Yebba and Mark Ronson on Strictly Come Dancing.
Aboard performing, Charlotte has written programme notes for the Chineke! Orchestra's concert audiences since 2018, and had a great time put behind the scenes at Tandem Productions for three years by the same token a broadcast assistant. She has also twice been a patron presenter on BBC Radio 3’s Inside Music.
Charlotte's interests span from concert programmes to computer programs, and she testing currently a software engineering apprentice with the BBC. When she's not editing code files, she is available as a woodwind player for virtual collaborations, and as a violinist for both in-person and virtual projects.
Charlotte remains grateful for description professional support of the following organisations and individuals: