Charlotte Harding is an Ivors Composer Award-winning composer and FaberAlt. artist.

Since studying at the Royal College of Music with Mark Anthony Turnage, her eclectic and genre-defying career has seen her works performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Sadler’s Wells, WOMAD, Simple Things Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall & Nonclassical, London. 

Collaborations with artists across the classical, pop, and electronic spheres include Brett Anderson (Suede) and Paraorchestra (orchestrator), Keaton Henson (saxophonist) and Hannah Peel (orchestrator).

Biography

Born in 1992. Graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in conducting (cum laude). Graduate of the music major in Wizo High school in Haifa. Was awarded a scholarship in composition from the AICF in the years 2007-2009 with distinction. Was awarded second prize in the Klon Award for Young Composers. Studied composition with Prof. Yinam Leef and Prof. Yitzhak Sadai. Currently studying composition with Prof. Menachem Wiesenberg and orchestral conducting with Yuval Zorn. His compositions and have been performed by the International Symphony Orchestra Lviv, Israel Chamber Orchestra, NKO Kibbutz Orchestra, New Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the Ramat Gan Chamber Orchestra. In 2011, by commission of the Marc Lavry Heritage Foundation, he reconstructed the lost score of Lavry's Woodwind Quintet using a recording made in 1957.

Graduate of the Israel Youth Philharmonic Orchestra in percussion. Studied percussion with David Zien and piano with Tamar Gur and Miriam Gorbonos.

Conductor, Orchestrator & Composer.

Work includes conducting & orchestrating Jóhann Jóhannsson's Golden Globe winning (and Oscar/BAFTA nominated 2015) score to The Theory of Everything and also Sicario (Oscar nominated 2016), BBC's EMMY awarding winning Sherlock score, conducting The Metropole Orkest, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborating with Django Bates, Tarik O'Regan, Michael Price (Sherlock), David Arnold (Sherlock) Jóhann Jóhannsson (Theory of Everything, Sicario), Rael Jones (Suite Francaise), Peter Gregson (A Little Chaos), Antony & The Johnsons

Brazilian composer, Rodrigo Lima is one of the most active composers of his generation, his music has been performed at festivals and concert halls in Latin America, Europe and the USA. His production includes orchestral music, chamber music, solo instruments, vocal music and works for choir.

In 2008, he was resident composer of the 5th International Forum of Young Composers in Paris with Ensemble Aleph. In 2015, his work Antiphonas for saxophone and ensemble premiered at the 17th World Saxophone Congress & Festival  in Strasbourg (France). In 2016, he received the order from the Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux (France) to compose the work Txury-ò: ‘caminho por onde vai o sol’ inspired by the cosmology of the Karajá Indians and dedicated to the french ensemble Proxima Centauri.

He has obtained some prizes in National and International Competitions:

·   Prize International Iberoamericano Rodolfo Halffter of Composition 2008 in Mexico.

·   Prize ‘Francisco Guerreiro Martín’ at the ‘XVII Premio Jóvenes Compositores 2006 Fundación Autor-CDMC’ in Madrid, Spain.

·   Prize for Classical Composition of the National Arts Foundation (FUNARTE) 2010 in Brazil.

·   1ºst Prize of the National Competition Camargo Guarnieri of Composition 2005 in Brazil.

·   1ºst Prize Camargo Guarnieri of Composition, Campos do Jordão International Winter Music Festival 2009 in Brazil, and others.

Lima’s Music has been performed by the Ensemble Aleph (France), Ensemble Linea (France), Proxima Centauri (France), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata de las Amércicas (Mexico), Sonor Ensemble (Spain), Orchestutropica (Lisboa-Portugal), Abstrai Ensemble (Brazil), Camerata Aberta (Brazil), University of São Paulo Symphony (Brazil), Claudio Santoro National Theater Symphony Orchestra (Brazil) and conductors Claudio Cruz (Brazil), Guillaume Bourgogne (France), Luis Aguirre (Spain), Cesário Costa (Portugal), Kirk Trevor (England) and Claudia Feres (Brazil). 

His main composition teachers were Estércio Marquez Cunha, Sergio Nogueira, Conrado Silva and Silvio Ferraz. Bachelor in Musical Composition Degree at the Department of Music University of Brasília and Masters in "Creative Processes" at the University of Campinas State in São Paulo. He also took courses with composers Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Claude Ledoux (Belgium) and Emmanuel Nunes (Portugal). 

             Rodrigo Lima is teacher of composition at the 'EMESP’- School of Music of São Paulo State. Lima is a member of the General Society of Authors and Editors ‘Sociedade General de Autores y Editores (SGAE)’ in Spain.

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