Charles Matthews
Charles Matthews studied at the Royal College of Music, London, and was an organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. His teachers have included Beryl Tichbon, Gwilym Isaac, David Pettit, Patricia Carroll, Nicholas Danby, Charles Spinks and Dr Richard Marlow.
He has won numerous awards, including first and second prizes in international piano and organ competitions in Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. For his most recent CD recording he joins Louise Lansdown for Mzansi Viola, a programme of South African works for viola and piano. Details of other recordings can be found on the "Listen" and "Works" pages at his website www.charlesmatthews.co.uk.
Charles has performed for productions by the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet, and recorded music used in various theatres in Spain. Schott Music publish a collection of his compositions for flute and piano.
Charles is organist of St Catharine's Church, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and also performs as a member of the Spire organ and electronics project. He works extensively with young people, acts as piano accompanist and organ tutor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and regularly works on music courses in the UK and internationally. He is Musical Director of the Campden Chorus and Patron of Shipston Music Society.
Charles is married, with a son and two daughters.
Jennifer Carter
Jennifer Carter was born in Bristol, and won major scholarships for every stage of her studies, also appearing on BBC Wales aged 16 playing in a masterclass with Richard MacMahon.
Jennifer has enjoyed playing in the Edinburgh Festival, LSO St Luke’s, the Bristol Colston Hall, the Barbican Centre, St James Piccadilly, St John's Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Royal Albert Hall and Kings Place and has also toured Norway, France and Germany with her piano trios.
She won the Queen Mary II accompanists prize at the Guildhall, and works for Guildhall, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music.
She has also performed Britten in LSO St Luke's with the Apollo Chamber Orchestra, and premiered the Carter piece at the Barbi-can Pit Theatre devised for her by the composer Michael Picknett.
Jennifer was a Junior Fellow in Accompaniment at the Royal Col-lege of Music, and was the first person to be awarded a further ex-tension of this fellowship for an unprecedented third year.
She has played for masterclasses with internationally acclaimed performers such as Sir John Tomlinson, Tabea Zimmerman, Ivry Gitlis, Nobuko Imai, Roderick Williams, Kim Kashkashian, Rebecca Evans, David Cohen, Alina Ibragimova, Thomas Riebl, James Gilchrist and Dame Felicity Lott.
Jennifer was also awarded the rarely bestowed Leonard Hancock Bursary for her work at the RCM. Jennifer performed recently at the V&A Museum, Palazzo Doria Pamphilij in Rome, St John's Smith Square, the Royal Opera House, the Oriental Club, the National Gallery and Lady Solti's house, as well as an appearance on Radio 3’s In Tune and performances with renowned baritone Roderick Williams.
Upcoming concerts include performances in Fidenza, Italy, mas-terclasses with Dame Ann Murray and performances with conduc-tor John Alley in Issigeac, France, and St John’s Smith Square.