Charlotte Bray has had works commissioned by some of the most established performers and ensembles including London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, CBSO, BCMG, Ensemble 360, Britten Sinfonia, Lawrence Power, and Mona Asuka Ott; and festivals, namely Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Aix-en-Provence, Savannah, and Verbier. Conductors who have performed her work include Oliver Knussen, Daniel Harding, and Jac van Steen. Her orchestral work At the Speed of Stillness was commissioned by the BBC Proms in 2012 and premiered by the Aldeburgh World Orchestra, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. The piece will receive its U.S. première in Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music in July 2014. Her debut disc with NMC records will be released in October 2014.
Bray's chamber opera, commissioned by Nova Music Opera will première and tour the UK in 2015. She is collaborating with librettist Amy Rosenthal on the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in England.
Born in Britain in 1982, Charlotte studied at Birmingham Conservatoire under Joe Cutler and the Royal College of Music with Mark Anthony Turnage. She participated in the Britten-Pears Contemporary Composition Course in 2007, and in 2008 she was awarded a Fellowship to study at the Tanglewood Music Center. Charlotte was appointed apprentice composer-in-residence with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music for 2009-2010, and in 2011 was made an honorary member of Birmingham Conservatoire. She was winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize 2010 and the Lili Boulanger Prize 2014.
