About

The 2025/26 season sees Charlotte debut with:

the Philharmonia Orchestra at Bold Tendencies,
London Symphony Orchestra,
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
and Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

She also conducts:

Les contes d'Hoffmann at Opéra National de Lyon,
The Cunning Little Vixen at Irish National Opera,
and returns to Opera Holland Park for a third time with Così fan tutte.

Last season Charlotte debuted with English National Opera (Turn of the Screw), State Opera South Australia (Flight) and London Philharmonic Orchestra (with the New London Chamber Choir). She also returned as Cover Conductor to Glyndebourne Festival Opera for a second season (Le Nozze di Figaro).

Other recent highlights include a return to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and her debut with Swedish Chamber Orchestra co-conducting Stravinsky’s The Rake's Progress with Barbara Hannigan in Örebro, Stockholm and Cologne.

Born in 1997, Charlotte graduated from Oxford University with First Class Honours in Music. She went on to study conducting at the Royal Academy of Music where she is currently Musical Director of their inaugural Junior Musical Theatre Department. She was assistant conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2023-25.

As of September 2022, she was appointed Musical Director of the Royal Academy of Music's inaugural Junior Musical Theatre Department. Further theatre credits include Keys Dep for Strictly Ballroom the Musical UK Tour, and Rehearsal Pianist for Only Fool's and Horses The Musical, on London's West End.

She was also one of seven women invited by the Royal Philharmonic Society to front a new scheme for female conductors in association with the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead.

She began her musical journey as a pianist and organist. During her undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, she held an Organ Scholarship at Hertford College, as well as Principal Conductorship of the Oxford University Philharmonia and the Oxford Contemporary Opera Society.

Charlotte was the first student in Oxford's history to hold the conductorship of the Philharmonia alongside the Conducting Scholarship of Schola Cantorum, Oxford's premier chamber choir.

She also became interested in showcasing contemporary music to new audiences, and was MD for the UK premiere of British composer Gavin Bryars' chamber opera Marilyn Forever.