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CHARLOTTE CORDEROY

Conductor

NEWS: Recently shortlisted for

'Young Artist of the Year' at the 

2025 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards (click for more...)

"Her control was immaculate, her grasp of the music’s elaborate ebb and flow apparently flawless. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra played for her like angels"  Stephen Walsh, The Arts Desk, July 2023

Recently shortlisted for the 'Rising Star Award' at the 2024 International Opera Awards, Charlotte Corderoy is Assistant Conductor to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO). 

 

The 2024/25 season sees Charlotte debut with: 

 

  • English National Opera (conducting Turn of the Screw)

  • Volksoper Wien (My Fair Lady)

  • The London Philharmonic Orchestra (Rothko's Chapel) 

  • South Australian Opera (Dove's Flight)

She also assists Barbara Hannigan at the London Symphony Orchestra, covers Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and continues with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

The following season Charlotte makes her debut with:

 

  • The Philharmonia Orchestra (at Bold Tendencies)

  • The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic,

  • Opéra National de Lyon (Les contes d'Hoffmann) 

  • Irish National Opera (The Cunning Little Vixen) 

 

- alongside returning to Opera Holland Park (Così fan tutte).

​Last season's highlights included returns to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (having previously conducted them at the Three Choirs Festival) and to Opera Holland Park for Il barbiere di Siviglia. Charlotte also debuted with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra co-conducting Stravinsky’s The Rake's Progress with Hannigan in Örebro, Stockholm and Cologne.

 

Born in 1997, Charlotte graduated from Oxford University with First Class Honours in Music. She went on to study conducting at the Royal Academy of Music where she is also Musical Director of their inaugural Junior Musical Theatre Department. She has assisted on a number of new commissions at the Aldeburgh Festival and on a Stravinsky album for Linn records featuring Barbara Hannigan.

Upcoming events

  • Dove's Flight (State Opera South Australia)
    Dove's Flight (State Opera South Australia)
    Thu, 08 May
    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide
    08 May 2025, 19:30 – 10 May 2025, 23:30
    Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide , 58 Grote St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
    One airport. Ten stranded passengers. One long night. Conductor | Charlotte Corderoy Director | Stephen Barlow Set & Costume Designer | Andrew Riley Lighting | Richard Howell
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  • Cover Conductor - Glyndebourne's, Le Nozze di Figaro
    Cover Conductor - Glyndebourne's, Le Nozze di Figaro
    29 Jun 2025, 19:00 – 21 Aug 2025, 23:00
    Glyndebourne , Glyndebourne, Lewes BN8 6SH, UK
    Mozart’s sexiest and sharpest opera brims with beauty, mischief and wisdom...
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  • Opéra de Lyon - The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
    Opéra de Lyon - The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
    16 Dec 2025, 19:00 – 05 Jan 2026, 23:00
    Opéra de Lyon, 1 Pl. de la Comédie, 69001 Lyon, France
    While the poet Hoffmann loses inspiration and his memory is erased, he invokes his past loves.
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Copyright © 2024 Charlotte Corderoy, All Rights Reserved
Portraits by Leanne Punshon, Michael Johnson & David Churchill Photography 

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