Biography | Charlotte Bray (born 1982, Oxford) is a British composer. She was raised in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and currently lives in Berlin.
Bray studied cello and composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with First Class Honours having studied with Joe Cutler. She then completed an MMus in composition with Distinction at the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Mark Anthony Turnage.
Bray was appointed apprentice Composer-in-Residence with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music for 2009/10, during which time BCMG gave the première of her violin concerto Caught in Treetops conducted by Oliver Knussen. Her orchestral work Beyond a Fallen Tree was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding (UBS Soundscapes Pioneers commission), May 2010. She was one of the winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize 2010.
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