Charlotte Bray

Who is Charlotte Bray?

Charlotte Bray is a British composer. She was raised in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

Bray studied cello and composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with First Class Honours having studied with Joe Cutler. She then completed an MMus in composition with Distinction at the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Mark Anthony Turnage. She studied at Tanglewood Music Centre in 2008, and in 2011 was made an Honorary Member of Birmingham Conservatoire. She has won numerous prizes, including the Royal Philharmonic Society composition prize 2010.

Bray was appointed apprentice Composer-in-Residence with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music for 2009/10, during which time violinist Alexandra Wood and BCMG gave the première of her violin concerto Caught in Treetops conducted by Oliver Knussen. Her orchestral work Beyond a Fallen Tree was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding, May 2010. Her song cycle Verre de Venise, was co-commission by Aldeburgh, Aix-en-Provence and Verbier Festivals in 2010. And Scenes from Wonderland by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, for soloist Jennifer Pike, and violinists from London Music Masters, 2011.