'This sensitively recorded debut presents an artist with something of her own to say, and something worth hearing …'

Gramophone / Champs Hill Records Ostinata / June 2022

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In 2021 Charlotte was a prize winner in the inaugural Young Classical Artists Trust (London) and Concert Artists Guild (New York) 2021 International Auditions. In 2022 she was also nominated as a 2022 Rising Star Artist by Classic FM.

2022 also saw Champs Hill Records release her debut solo album Ostinata to critical acclaim, with Gramophone magazine describing her as “an artist with something of her own to say”.

In the 22/23 season, Charlotte returned to Wigmore Hall, Radio France, Britten-Pears Arts and to the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival where, as leader of the Quatuor Confluence, they won 1st Prize in the Competition in 2021. She also took part in the Australian Chamber Music Festival in Townsville Charlotte and made her debut with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and CBSO Youth Orchestra.

Over the last year Charlotte has also given recitals and performed concertos across the UK including the Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ryedale, Lake District Summer Music, Brighton and King’s Lynn Festivals.  

Upcoming performance highlights include a tour to the United States in partnership with the Concert Artists Guild, a chamber tour with Sinfonia Cymru, recordings of Schubert for Delphian Records, a return to the CBSO to perform Vaughn Williams’ The Lark Ascending and a lunchtime recital in the Konzerthaus Berlin. Charlotte will also be performing various chamber and solo recitals across both the UK and Europe.

An avid chamber musician, recent highlights include appearances at Wigmore Hall, a BBC Prom with the dynamic 12 Ensemble, and a performance of the Franck Piano Quintet at the Gstaadt Festival with Alina Ibragimova, Lawrence Power, Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou.  

She has taken part in Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove, the East Neuk, Santander Encuentro, Musethica, Stift and Evian Festivals, and is currently in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris with Quatuor Confluence.

Charlotte enjoys playing a wide variety of repertoire, including more rarely heard solo concertos by Panufnik, Vasks and Joachim, the latter which she has performed, alongside Bernstein’s Serenade, with the Budapest Concerto Orchestra conducted by András  Keller.   

Born in France, Charlotte completed her Master’s at the Royal College of Music (London) with Alina Ibragimova, having previously studied in Montpellier, and with Natasha Boyarsky at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

She has participated in masterclasses with world-renowned teachers including Ana Chumachenco, Zakhar Bron, Pavel Vernikov, Maxim Vengerov, and András Keller.  

Charlotte  is currently playing on a Giovanni Battista Rogeri, kindly loaned to her by the Swiss foundation Boubo-Music.

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Press reviews

"French violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, making her debut with the AFCM, led the woodwind quintet and delivered an astonishingly virtuosic performance. Dvořák wrote extremely difficult music for the violin in this Romance, but Saluste-Bridoux rose to the challenge with ease, her technical prowess and acuity imbuing the work with emotional richness."

Suzannah Conway - ARTS hub / Australian Festival of Chamber Music / August 2023

"For all the fireworks and superbly executed technical devilry, there is a feeling here of essential calm, which is shattered by the vehemence of the following Fuga, played with textural clarity and a great sense of line … Ysaÿe’s Fourth Sonata is a wonderful mixture of technical rigour and emotional flexibility, with Saluste-Bridoux bringing lyrical flow and tonal beauty to even the most complex passages of multiple-stopping"

Tim Homfray - The Strad / Champs Hill Records Ostinata / June 2022

"This sensitively recorded debut presents an artist with something of her own to say, and something worth hearing … while the five works are all in their own ways folk-informed, technically taxing virtuoso vehicles, they are also strikingly diverse in terms of stylistic and emotional expression ... An attention-grabbing debut."

Charlotte Gardner - Gramophone / Champs Hill Records Ostinata / June 2022

Contact

To book Charlotte please contact

Etta Dainty – Senior Artist Manager [email protected]

Adam Maxey - Assistant Artist Manager [email protected]

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