British soprano Charlotte Pawley is a recent graduate of the David Seligman Opera School at RWCMD. She was a 2025 Sir Ian Stoutzker Prize finalist, and was the 2024 winner of the Adelina Patti Prize, as well as the 2023 winner of the Eileen Price Prize for Lieder Singing.
Recent engagements include performing as Donna Anna in RWCMD’s production of Don Giovanni, Donna Eleonora (Salieri’s Prima la musica, poi le parole), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Der Sandmann (Hänsel und Gretel) at RWCMD, and Charlotte (Der Diktator, Krenek) at the Leeds Opera Festival. She will also be joining the chorus of Grange Park Opera this summer for their productions of Taverner’s Krishna (World Premiere) and Verdi’s Don Carlo.

Previous solo operatic roles and excerpts include Nannetta (Falstaff), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Magda (The Consul), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) and Amore (Venus and Adonis). She has also performed in the chorus in productions with the RWCMD David Seligman Opera School in Le Nozze di Figaro, the Oxford Opera Society, The People's Opera and the Cumbria Opera Group.

Her recent concert engagements have included performances with the WNO Orchestra and as a soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Michael Haydn’s Requiem Mass. As a concert soloist, Charlotte has performed with the Unicorn Singers, Newbury Symphony Orchestra, St Hilda's College Choir and University College Choir, and premiered the role of Begu, a nun in ‘St Hilda of Whitby: A Cantata’ by Nicola LeFanu for St Hilda's 125th Anniversary celebrations. Charlotte particularly enjoys exploring contemporary works and lesser performed pieces by female composers.

Charlotte’s studies were supported by the Starmer Jones Scholarship and the Jenkin-Phillips Scholarships, and the Sybil Tutton Opera Awards.

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