FULL BIOGRAPHY
Freelance Work
Charlotte has done a broad range of freelance work, including musicals, big bands, silver bands, recordings for individual artists, and other miscellaneous collections. Here is a quick overview:
Musicals
She has performed musicals in Toronto (Hart House, St Michael’s, U of T, Iranian-Canadian Composers of Toronto, and JDP Theater Productions) and Brockville (St. Lawrence College). She has played musicals from many different eras, from Guys and Dolls (2020), to Cats (2021), to Beauty and the Beast (2017, 2018), to Legally Blond (Trombone) (2019), among any others.
Large Ensembles: Classical
On tenor horn, she is a member of the Hannaford Street Silver Band and Intrada Brass, and regularly joins Weston Silver Band. She has recorded with The Holy Gasp, and played French Horn and Trombone in the Iranian-Canadian Composers of Toronto's opera, "A Journey: Notes of Hope".
Large Ensemble: Jazz
She was a member of Marie Goudy's 12tet before its dissolution, In which she took part in the recording of the album "A Bitter Suite". On the Big Band front, she has played in Brian Barlow’s Big Band, The Rex Hotel Jazz Orchestra, and has recorded with Swing Shift Big Band.
Recording
She appears on numerous recordings, both from her own bands and as a hired musician for artists of many genres, such as Killy's "Destiny"(2019), Dwayne Gretzky's "God Only Knows" (2018), Swing Shift Big Band (2022), and The Holy Gasp "... And The Lord Hath Taken Away" (2022).
Bands
Charlotte currently plays in two bands: a hip-hop band called Bangerz Brass, and a pop band called Trash Panda Brass. She played in Marie Goudy's 12tet before its dissolution.
She has been a member of Bangerz Brass since 2017 on French Horn, and has been the personnel manager since 2018. With Bangerz, she has performed at the Beaches Jazz Fest, The Opera House, Lee's Palace, and the Garrison. She has also traveled to Montreal for combined performances with Urban Science Brass Band, and has recorded two albums - one live ("Bangerz Brass"), and one sampled ("Coronation"). She has grown accustomed to arranging on the fly with the other members of the band, and improvising in the hip-hop genre. In 2018, She appreared on the cover of the Tourism Toronto Magazine.
Trash Panda Brass Band is a new but quickly progressing queer brass band, in which she plays mellophone and arranges iconic queer songs. So far, they have played at Drom Taberna, Supermarket, and the Walmer Fall Fair block party. They also appeared on the Toolswap podcast and will be teaching at Sterling Hall. Keep an eye out for this group!
Recorded Music
Charlotte has recorded two full length albums with Bangerz Brass, released in 2019 and 2022, and is featured on the song "Best I Can". She is on Marie Goudy's album "The Bitter Suite", in which her "contribution bolsters [Goudy’s] argument that there’s simply not enough French horn on modern jazz recordings” - Marie Goudy, The Republic of Jazz. Charlotte is also featured in "God Only Knows" on the live Dwayne Gretzky album, "Night at the Opera House". In February of 2022, she took part in The Holy Gasp's "...And the Lord Hath Taken Away" - a 19-movement orchestra+choir work, to be released in late 2022/early 2023.
Otherwise, she has appeared on various recordings with Toronto's "Killy", The Free Label, and Swing Shift Big Band. Trash Panda Brass album coming soon!
Teaching
In 2018, Charlotte designed and curated a free 2-day workshop called "Boombap Brass and Emcees" to teach hip hop in a woman- and queer-friendly environment. Involved in this was hiring six women clinicians and curating a combined performance with the attendees and Bangerz Brass.
Charlotte is an itinerate teacher at Branksome Hall and Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, where she provides group and private lessons on trumpet, french horn, euphonium, and tuba for students aged 9-17.
She has been Staff at the National Music Camp of Canada since 2015, and has been senior staff since 2021. Here, she assist with group lessons, helps students during large ensemble rehearsals, teaches beginner french horn and percussion, and stays in a cabin with 10-12 children for 8 days.
Since 2021, Charlotte has been assisting with the Hannaford Youth Program, and is on the board of the Hannaford Street Silver Band.
Education
Charlotte Completed a Bachelor of French Horn Performance from the University of Toronto in 2019. There, she performed with the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra for four years where she regularly played first chair, and the University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra when french horn was required. Over the course of her degree, she played in many student composer concerts, two brass quintets, two woodwind quintets, a french horn quartet, french horn octet, and the contemporary music ensemble, and was often hired to do french horn demonstrations for composition classes.
In 2015 and 2016, She attended the Domaine Forget Summer Program, where she had private lessons and masterclasses with William VerMuellen, Ad Koster, Frank Lloyd, and Denise Tryon.
She was in the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2013-2018, where she was the spokesperson for the Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee Meeting, and was in the Hannaford Youth Program from 2014-2020.