Charlotte Giraudeau

Born in 2008, Charlotte Giraudeau started her music journey at the age of five. She was the youngest student at the age of 9 years admitted into the Academy Program for Young Gifted Artists at the Mount Royal University, Calgary where she studied with Kathy Dornian and Krzysztof Jablonski. She currently studies with Marilyn Engle, Professor Emerita of the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.

Charlotte has won many awards nationally and internationally. She won the Ann Southam Senior National Award in 2021 as a result of first place in the Canadian Contemporary Music Competition. She placed second place in the 2022 Canadian Music Competition (CMC). She won the Young Soloist Award and Absolute First Prize in the 2022 Franz Liszt Centre International Piano Competition and first place in the 2022 San Francisco Articiál International Piano Competition. In 2023, she won the second prize in the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, first place in the 3rd Franz Liszt Center Piano Competition, and first in the Beecham International Piano Competition. She was also declared the overall winner of the Canada Steinway Piano Competition. She won the second prize in the 2023 Vancouver International Music Competition. Together with her chamber group, they won first place in the 2023 Lancaster International Piano and Chamber Music Festival. In 2024, she received second prize in the IPPA Conero Competition and first prize in the Aloha International Piano Competition.

In the summer of 2022, Charlotte attended the Morningside Music Bridge program at the New England Conservatory where she studied with many teachers, including Arie Vardi, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and Wha Kyung Byun. Charlotte has also had the opportunity to study with many other leading artists including Douglas Humphreys, Corey Hamm, Sasha Starcevich and Steven Hough. Charlotte was selected as one of the festival students in the 2023 Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival, Salt Lake City, USA. She also attended The Talent Summer Master Courses and Festival in Brescia, Italy. She studied with Mr. Bernd Goetzke, a professor at the Hanover University of Music and Drama and performed Chopin Concerto No. 2 in F minor with the Artematica Organization leader of the Master Orchestra. In 2024, she performed alongside other talented young musicians at Canada’s Rising Stars 20th Anniversary Concert. In August, she attended the Summer Music Academy in Bern where she studied with Professor Tomasz Herbut.

In addition to her music studies, Charlotte plays the flute in her school’s concert band. She is an active member of the Back to Bach Foundation in the Calgary division where she regularly performs and educates young students at elementary schools. She organizes her own organization, the Capriccio International Young Artists organization, performing concerts for the community regularly. In her spare time, Charlotte enjoys doing multiple sports, such as swimming, and biking in the summer and downhill skiing in the winter.