BIOGRAPHY

Charlotte is a composer who collects memories and moments in the form of music. Her compositions are inspired by her surroundings and her love of world travel. Her pieces aim to conjure an atmosphere or capture a fleeting moment. Having been bought up on a diet of classical music and jazz, her compositions borrow from both musical disciplines, resulting in her unique compositional voice.

Preserving memories was at the heart of ‘In Retrospect’, a vocal work written on Making Music’s Adopt A Music Creator project 2024, which explored the memories of the Harpenden Barbershop Harmony Club for whom it was written. In a similar vein, ‘Nocturne: waves collide with the precipice…’ documents the composers own experience of visiting Lullworth Cove. This short piano piece was included in the collection ‘22 Nocturnes for Chopin’ published by EVC Music in 2023. The collection was performed in 2024 at Kings Place, London, as part of the London Piano Festival.

A central theme to Charlotte’s practice is capturing a sense of time and place. This can be seen in her 2020 debut album release ‘Isolation’, a collection of 15 piano miniatures composed throughout the pandemic, exploring life and emotions at this time. Selected pieces from ‘Isolation’ provided the soundtrack to Pandemic Portraits, a multimedia photojournalist project by photographer Nic Madge. Pandemic Portraits was exhibited in the St Albans Museum and Gallery from the 17th May to the 31st September 2021.

In 2019 Charlotte won the grade 7 category of the Trinity College London Young Composers Competition, which resulted in her piece 'Soho' being published in the 2021-2023 piano syllabus. She has subsequently written technical exercises for the 2024 Trinity exam syllabus.

Her piano music has been performed in Europe and America, with premieres given by Fidan Aghayeve-Edler, Rose McLachlan, Francesca Hurst, Késia Decoté, and Maria Marchant.

Charlotte enjoys working with leisure-time groups and has worked closely with the Great British Home Chorus Friends, as well as other choirs and orchestras in St Albans. As an arranger, her work has been played on BBC Three Counties radio and on BBC Radio York.

Passionate about fostering a love for music in the next generation, Charlotte is also a sort-after piano teacher, running her own piano school in her local area.

Charlotte studied composition under Colin Riley and orchestration under John Woolrich, graduating from Brunel University with a first class honours degree in Musical Composition. She has been an observer at Cheltenham Festivals’ Composer Academy (2022), and has attended the Music Summer School Festival’s course Creating In Sound And Vision lead by Stephen Montague (2024).

Looking ahead to 2025-2026, Charlotte will be collaborating with pianist Jelena Makarova and Trio Sonorité on two new works documenting travels in South America.