Charlotte Baskerville
Short biography: (born 1994)
Charlotte Baskerville was educated at The Godolphin School, Salisbury, where she held a music scholarship. She read music at Christ’s College, Cambridge, taking a BA in 2015, and wrote a master’s thesis on the cognition of music under the supervision of Prof Ian Cross.
Charlotte was a soprano choral scholar at Christ’s under the direction of Prof. David Rowland and developed a flare for choral composition under Christopher Brown (Clare College). She won the prestigious Christ’s College Charles Blackham Memorial Recital Competition in 2016 (clarinet) and was co-leader of the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain.
Charlotte currently teaches academic music and is Head of Choral music at Warwick School. She sings with a number of choirs in Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury and the surrounding areas and plays the clarinet with several ensembles in Cheltenham.
Popular work(s): A Tender Shoot, carol for SATB, words 15th century German, translated by William Bartholomew (1793-1867)