Biography

From a long line of musicians, Charlotte grew up in Chichester, West Sussex. She graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA (Hons) in Music, where she specialised in solo and ensemble vocal performance. She continued her vocal studies with the distinguished vocal teacher Jane Highfield (Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama) and took a PGCE in Music and a PG Cert. in Opera at the University of London.



Charlotte appears regularly as a soloist in both recital and oratorio. She recently gave the prestigious Martindale Sidwell Memorial Recital in Hampstead, with a programme of Purcell, Mozart, Weill and Richard Rodney Bennett. Her recent oratorio repertoire includes Haydn’s Creation, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, Dvorak’s Te Deum, Vaughan Williams’ Benedicite, Faure’s Requiem, Bach’s St John Passion, Bach’s Cantata Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme, Schubert’s Mass in G, Brahms’ Requiem, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Rutter’s Magnificat. She has performed in many prestigious venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sadler’s Wells, St John’s Smith Square, Buckingham Palace and Arundel Castle.



Charlotte has also appeared on the platform with many leading vocal ensembles including the Tallis Scholars, Philharmonia Voices, Aurora Nova, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort and Geoffrey Mitchell Choir. She recently performed with Philharmonia Voices in Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrims Progress at Sadler’s Wells and Three Shakespeare Songs at the Royal Festival Hall, both under the baton of the late Richard Hickox, in celebration of Vaughan Williams’ anniversary year. Also with the Philharmonia, she sang in a performance of Messiaen’s La Transfiguration under Kent Nagano in celebration of the composer’s centenary year. She was also delighted to be asked to sing at Buckingham Palace at a concert to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales. Other engagements have included a performance at the Arundel Festival, and appearances with the sell-out comedy string trio Pluck at the Purcell Room and the Arts Theatre in London’s West End.



Other recent engagements include a performance of Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise as part of the Chichester Festivities, a special presentation of Bunyan’s The Pilgrims’ Progress with readings by the veteran actor Timothy West at the Tunbridge Wells Festival and a performance of Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio at the BBC Proms under Daniel Barenboim, shown live on BBC 2.
Future projects include a programme of Samuel Wesley's works with Orpheus Britannicus in Cambridge and a Good Friday performance of Bach's St John Passion with the chorus of The Hanover Band.