Charlotte Spruit is a soloist and chamber musician, praised for her passionate and energetic performances. Charlotte won the first prize as well as the audience prize and the Genuin Classics prize at the Leipzig International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in 2022. She also won the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions held at Wigmore Hall in 2023 and was named Classic FM rising star in 2024. 

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Recent solo engagements include performances at the Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus Berlin, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. As a soloist, Charlotte has performed with renowned orchestras, including the Residentie Orkest The Hague, The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Ecurie, the Pauliner Barockensemble, and Ensemble Esperanza. ​

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A passionate chamber musician, Charlotte has collaborated with acclaimed musicians including Janine Jansen, Rachel Podger, Gidon Kremer, Tabea Zimmermann, Lawrence Power, and Christian Tetzlaff. She is regularly invited to perform in festivals, including the Chamber Music Connects the World festival at the Kronberg Academy, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Bachfest Leipzig, and the Mendelssohn on Mull Festival where she performed with the Doric String Quartet

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Charlotte also enjoys exploring innovative ways of bringing music to audiences, for example by bringing together different forms of art. She has collaborated with artist Jérémie Queyras, creating performances combining painting and music. Together they won the first prize at the Goodmesh Concours in 2022.

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Charlotte began her violin studies aged 4 with Coosje Wijzenbeek. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music with David Takeno, and at the Royal Academy of Music with Ying Xue, Rachel Podger, and Pavlo Beznosiuk, where she was awarded a Bicentenary Scholarship and the HRH Duchess of Gloucester Prize upon graduation.

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Charlotte is looking forward to a busy 2024-25 season, including a solo recital at the Wigmore Hall, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto at the Cello Biennale in Amsterdam with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and a recital at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Charlotte plays an 18th-century anonymous Italian violin, kindly on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation.

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August 2024