BASKERVILLE, Charlotte

Charlotte Baskerville (born 1994) was educated at The Godolphin School, Salisbury, where she held a music scholarship. She read music at Christ’s College, Cambridge, taking a BA in 2015, and wrote a master’s thesis on the cognition of music under the supervision of Prof Ian Cross. Charlotte was a soprano choral scholar at Christ’s under the direction of Prof David Rowland and developed a flare for choral composition under Christopher Brown (Clare College). She won the prestigious Christ’s College Charles Blackham Memorial Recital Competition in 2016 (clarinet) and was co-leader of the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Great Britain.Charlotte’s compositions are published by Encore Publications and Chichester Music Press and have been performed by ensembles such as St. Cecilia Singer’s (Gloucester Cathedral’s Chamber Choir) and Musica Deo Sacra (Tewkesbury Abbey). Recently, her anthem ‘Verbum Supernum’ was included as the Communion Motet for Sunday Eucharist as part of Tewkesbury Abbey’s Musica Deo Sacra Festival of Music in the Liturgy 2022.