Biography

Charlotte Botterill is a composer who’s music is influenced by her surroundings, the metaphysical, and abstract ideas. Her music blends classical and jazz harmony, while exploring contrasting timbres of extended techniques and traditional playing. Her compositions aim to conjure an atmosphere, capture a fleeting moment, or portray the evolving and uncertain nature of life.

Charlotte is a participating composer in the 2024 Adopt A Music Creator project, run by Making Music. Her piano music has been published by EVC Music and she has contributed to several of the Trinity College London piano exam syllabi. Her works have been performed in Europe and the USA..

In 2020, Charlotte released her debut album ‘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.

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

Charlotte studied composition under Colin Riley and orchestration under John Woolrich, graduating from Brunel University in 2012 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).