About

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) and 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.

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 currently Musical Director of their inaugural Junior Musical Theatre Department. She has assisted on a number of new commissions at the Aldeburgh Festival.

As of September 2022, she was appointed Musical Director of the Royal Academy of Music's inaugural Junior Musical Theatre Department. Further theatre credits include Keys Dep for Strictly Ballroom the Musical UK Tour, and Rehearsal Pianist for Only Fool's and Horses The Musical, on London's West End.

She was also one of seven women invited by the Royal Philharmonic Society to front a new scheme for female conductors in association with the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead.

She began her musical journey as a pianist and organist. During her undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, she held an Organ Scholarship at Hertford College, as well as Principal Conductorship of the Oxford University Philharmonia and the Oxford Contemporary Opera Society.

Charlotte was the first student in Oxford's history to hold the conductorship of the Philharmonia alongside the Conducting Scholarship of Schola Cantorum, Oxford's premier chamber choir.

She also became interested in showcasing contemporary music to new audiences, and was MD for the UK premiere of British composer Gavin Bryars' chamber opera Marilyn Forever.