We were delighted to welcome Charlie Perry as our new Musical Director in September 2023

Charlie is a conductor, singer and arranger based in London. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 2018 with First Class honours and has since been working successfully as a freelance musician in the North West and now in his hometown of London. 

Charlie’s work covers a wide spectrum of music-making: from amateur singers to young people and professional musicians. He is currently Musical Director of Stafford Choral Society and The Epworth Choir in Woking, as well as a Choral Leader for the Southwark Diocese School Singing Programme. Previously, he has held the posts of Director of Music at the Manchester Oratory; Musical Director of Cantores Olicanae in Ilkley and Assistant Conductor of Stockport Youth Orchestra and Kinder Youth Choirs. In addition, he has worked with high-profile institutions such as The Hallé, with whom he has been a community and workshop choral leader; and Manchester Collective, for whom he has recently prepared the children’s chorus in their production of Britten’s Noah’s Flood for the Manchester International Festival.

From 2023-24, Charlie will be the Conducting Scholar for The Sixteen’s prestigious Young Artist Programme, Genesis Sixteen. From 2020-22, he was the Young Conducting Scholar with Crouch End Festival Chorus.

Outside of conducting, Charlie is a freelance Tenor and has a wealth of experience as a soloist and choral singer. He has performed solos in Haydn’s Creation and Nelson Mass, as well as Schubert’s Mass in G and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.Chorally, he has sung with Kantos in Manchester since 2018, which has taken him from Rome and Assisi on live BBC Radio; and to recordings on Decca with the RLPO Orchestra.