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 an occasional 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 (Trash Panda Brass and Bangerz Brass) 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.
Trash Panda Brass formed in the summer of 2022 on the streets of Toronto with a simple mission of engaging crowds and spreading queer and inclusive joy. Within two years of conception, they graced the cover of Whole Note magazine, rocked TD Jazz Fest, DoWestFest, Cultivate festival, and the Distillery District Concert Series. They’ve also performed in educational workshops at Sterling Hall and O’Neill CVI, and were guest panelists at Queens University on the topic of queer representation in post-secondary music. In November of 2023, they released their debut EP, “Opposable Thumbs”. However, after three summers of active busking, their home will always be on the streets where they are “retooling the art of busking into a kind of amazing outdoor ambush” - The Whole Note
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.
Recorded Music
Charlotte has recorded an EP entitled "Opposable Thumbs" with Trash Panda Brass, released in 2023 and 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", and In February of 2022, she took part in The Holy Gasp's "...And the Lord Hath Taken Away" - a 19-movement orchestra+choir work. Charlotte is also featured in "God Only Knows" on the live Dwayne Gretzky album, "Night at the Opera House".
Otherwise, she has appeared on various recordings with Toronto's "Killy", The Free Label, and Swing Shift Big Band.
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
Recently, She began teaching with the Doane School of Music, teaching Ukulele in classroom settings to ages 9-11.
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 began her Master's degree in French Horn Performance at the University of Toronto in September of 2025 and is set to graduate in 2027. She participates in the Contemporary Music Ensemble under Wallace Halladay, and is a member of a woodwind quintet and a horn quartet. She studies under Nicholas Hartman.
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.