Charlotte Harding
Charlotte Harding is an award-winning composer, orchestrator and saxophonist.
Her works include the Ivors Composer Award-winning ‘Convo’ for massed ensemble (Royal Albert Hall) and the Ivors Composer Award-nominated ‘Them’ for contemporary dance company Balletboyz (Sadler’s Wells/Edinburgh Festival/Vaudeville Theatre, West End). 2021 will see the release of her debut electro-classical EP ‘TRI’ for string ensemble, drum kit and electronic production.
Drawing on an eclectic mix of classical and cross-genre influences, her work fuses bold rhythmic statements with evocative melodic lines and vivid textures. Her diverse career has seen her work performed in concert halls (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Kings Place, Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields), new music club nights (Nonclassical), galleries (National Portrait Gallery, Science Gallery London) and music festivals (WOMAD, Simple Things). Upcoming premieres in 2021 include works for The Bach Choir, Faust Chamber Orchestra and Onyx Brass.
As an orchestrator and arranger, Charlotte has frequently worked with the innovative electro-classical Paraorchestra. Projects have included collaborating with Suede’s Brett Anderson for ‘Death Songbook’ (Gŵyl 2021/BBC), reimagining the songs of Barry White (Park Stage, Glastonbury Festival 2019), and creating realisations of works by electronic pioneer Pauline Oliveros for the concert ‘Minimalism Changed My Life: Tones, Drones, and Arpeggios’ (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London/Bridgewater Hall, Manchester).
As a saxophonist, Charlotte co-founded ‘Over 100 Years of Women and the Saxophone’ with Amy Green which launched at the World Saxophone Congress, SaxOpen, in Strasbourg in 2015 and made its debut in the US in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University in early 2020. She also featured on Keaton Henson’s latest album ‘Monument’ (PIAS).
Charlotte studied at the Royal College of Music, London with Mark-Anthony Turnage (composition) and Martin Robertson (saxophone) and on graduating was awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rosebowl.
She is currently working on new music to release later this year.
Them
”The choreography was made in parallel with Charlotte Harding’s excellent string score, and dance and music are clearly, pleasingly, in cahoots. Harding’s music is spare but rich: it has melody but never predictability with its riffs, clear statements and space in between, and the dance follows suit.”
The Guardian
“Harding’s string score, combining propulsive pizzicato passages with shrill, nervy shudders and grinding bass, conjures a suitably enigmatic soundworld.”
The Stage
Convo
”It was a big, beautiful thing, and it knocked me sideways.”
Samuel West (Actor, Director and chair, National Campaign for the Arts)
Kraftwerk Re:werk
”Rarely has the marriage between electronic music and its orchestral counterpoint been so wonderfully rendered.”
The Latest, Brighton
Death Songbook
“Indie anthems were given a classical twist … delivered with heart-wrenching beauty … as haunting as they come …”
The Telegraph
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