Biography

As a highly sought after violinist, Charlotte enjoys a varied career as a soloist, director and chamber musician. Her critically acclaimed discography includes recordings for LINN Records, Decca, Apple Music, Classical Label and Champs Hill.

Passionate about directing, Charlotte regularly performs with many chamber orchestras worldwide, including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae, and Nederlands Chamber Orchestra, leading with dynamic programmes as a soloist, director or concertmaster. In recent seasons she has taken part in various live broadcasts from Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms.

As a soloist and chamber player, recent highlights include frequent performances in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Purcell Room, Sheldonian Theatre and The Festival Hall. Additionally, she is invited as part an array of summer festivals including the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival, New Paths Chamber Festival, York Chamber Festival and Zermatt Festival.

Charlotte regularly gives performance classes and masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Oxford University and has a great interest in exploring and helping others with performance practice from a variety of different approaches. Influencing the art in which she teaches and performs, these approaches are naturally integrated into the relationships with colleagues and in her performances.

Currently first violinist and co-founder of the Oculi Ensemble - a group which was created as the next iteration of the former Badke Quartet. The Oculi Ensemble is made up of a circle of world class string string quartet artists, and forms a larger, flexible ensemble that received high critical acclaim globally for their release of Metamorphosen- Strauss Chamber Works:

“Vitality abounds ... the Oculi players’ fastidiousness with dynamics and tonal range held me throughout.” BBC Music (Magazine, UK) David Nice (*****).

“This is a recording that all who love not only Strauss’s instrumental music but the sumptuousness of late- Romantic chamber music will find eminently rewarding and irresistible." Gramophone (Magazine, UK) Jeremy Dribble, April 2021.

Between 2006-2013, Charlotte dedicated her life as the first violinist of the award winning Piatti Quartet, performing internationally and making regular appearances on BBC Radio 3, as well as various further live television and radio broadcasts. The quartet won numerous international prizes and in 2012 was nominated for a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Award, equally reflected in their distinguished discography.

Charlotte grew up in England where she studied with Mateja Marinković at Wells Cathedral School and later at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the Franstein Violin Prize. She went on to study in Boston at the New England Conservatory with Eric Rosenblith, James Buswell and Donald Weilerstein.

For three years, Charlotte was awarded a scholarship to attend IMS Prussia Cove to perform in concerts and masterclasses with Ida Haendl, Ferenc Rados and Valeria Szervánszky. Further masterclasses include those given by Mauricio Fuks, Thomas Brandis, Sylvia Rosenberg, Zvi Zeitlin, Tibor Varga, Alexander Pavlovic. As a quartet player she studied with Gunter Pichler for an intensive two years at the Escuala de Musica Reina Sofia and also with Rainer Smidt for three years at Pro Quartet-France.

 Charlotte plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivarius, 1685 “Gagliano”