• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Contemporary music concerts from living composers

  • Home
  • 2022-23 concerts
  • 2022-23 Performers
  • 2022-23 Composers
  • Interviews
  • Articles
  • Reviews
  • Listen
  • Who we are
  • About
  • Contact

Charlotte Bray

20th April 2015

The composer Charlotte Bray has emerged as an outstanding talent of her generation. Her music exhibits an uninhibited ambition and desire to communicate and is described as vivid, exhilarating and richly expressive with a lyrical intensity.

Charlotte has written for some of the world’s top ensembles and festivals, including the LSO, LPO, London Sinfonietta, Aldeburgh and Aix-en-Provence. In 2013, she was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Charlotte is an Honorary Member of Birmingham Conservatoire and was named as their Alumni of the Year 2014. She was also winner of the 2014 Lili Boulanger Prize. Her debut recording, At the Speed of Stillness on NMC Records was released last October. Out of the Ruins was commissioned in 2015 by the Royal Opera House Youth Opera Company. This year also sees the première of her chamber opera in Cheltenham Festival; Entanglement is commissioned by Nova Music Opera and written in collaboration with librettist Amy Rosenthal on the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

Other notable achievements include Black Rainbow, commissioned and premiered by the CBSO Youth Orchestra under Jac van Steen; BBC Proms commission At the Speed of Stillness (2012) for Sir Mark Elder and the Aldeburgh World Orchestra; Invisible Cities (2012) commissioned by the Verbier Festival and premiered by Lawrence Power and Julien Quentin; and Caught in Treetops (violin concerto, 2010) with Alexandra Wood and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group under Oliver Knussen.

www.charlottebray.co.uk

Filed Under: 2015 Composers, 2022-23 Composers, Composers

Primary Sidebar

Copyright © 2023 York Late Music • Registered Charity 1191812

Happy with our use of cookies? Read More » OK
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT