‘Vocal music has many opportunities to be judged in competitions. Compared to instrumental music such as piano and violin, it is difficult to find well-balanced talent in this field. Some posses a good voice but lack technique, and even if the technique is proficient, the language is often unclear. The three vocal performers in this year’s prize-winners’ concert each had their strengths, but Charity Mapletoft, the soprano who skilfully interpreted the song-cycle, ‘Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII’ by the American composer Libby Larsen (1950- ), was outstanding and stood out from the crowd.’ - Iketaku Honpo https://www.iketakuhonpo.com/post/%E5%A4%A7%E9%98%AA%E5%9B%BD%E9%9A%9B%E9%9F%B3%E6%A5%BD%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%81%AE%E5%85%A5%E8%B3%9E%E8%80%85%E3%82%AC%E3%83%A9%E3%80%814%E5%B9%B4%E3%81%B6%E3%82%8A%E3%81%AB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8D%E3%82%AE%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%ABh%E3%81%A7%E9%96%8B%E5%82%AC (2023)

During the 2022-23 season, Charity Mapletoft made her Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Stiftung Mozarteum Groẞer Saal solo debuts to international critical acclaim, having been offered a series of summer concerts due to her competition success. Since 2021, Charity has won prizes in thirty-seven international competitions, most of those being first and grand prizes.

Grand and/or First Prize: Bizet International Music Competition 2023 (Grand Prize, Absolute First Prize, Special Technical Award); Euterpe Music Awards 2023 (Gold Prize, Best Emerging Artist Prize); Saint-Saëns International Music Competition 2023 (Platinum Award, Excellent Technique Award); Bach International Music Competition 2023 (Absolute First Prize, Excellent Interpretation Special Award); Amadeus International Music Awards 2023 (First Prize, Best Emerging Talent Award); European Classical Music Awards 2023 (Grand Prize, Platinum Award); Elizabeth Music Competition 2023 (Platinum Award, Master of Emotion Special Award); U. K. International Music Competition 2023; (Absolute First Prize, Expressive Performance Special Prize); Debussy International Music Competition (Absolute First Prize ); International BTHVN Wien Music Competition 2023 (First Prize); Charleston International Eighteenth-Century Music Competition 2023 (First Prize); Medici International Music Competition 2023; Royale Music Competition 2023 (Diamond Prize, Technical Marvel Special Award); International Mozart Competition Vienna 2023; London Classical Music Competition 2023; Vivaldi International Music Competition 2022 (First Prize with Excellence Nomination); New York Global Music Competition 2022; American Virtuoso International Music Competition 2022; Las Conchillas International Music Competition Chile 2022; London International Music Competition 2022; Franz Schubert International Music Competition 2022; Trinity International Music Competition 2022 (Gold Medal); World Classical Music Awards 2021 (Grand Prize, and First Prize in the Baroque, Modern and Age 26+ categories); Beethoven International Music Competition 2021; Clara Schumann International Music Competition 2021; OSAKA International Music Competition 2021 (New York Regional Round Chief Executive Award; First Prize nominee).

Second Prize: Siegfried-Szabo International Vocal Contest 2023; International BTHVN Wien Music Competition 2022; Amadeus International Music Awards 2022; Birmingham International Music Competition 2022; Chicago International Music Competition 2021; Rising Stars Grand Prix – International Music Competition Berlin 2021.

Third Prize: The North International Music Competition, Stockholm 2021 (qualified for Second Prize); Global Music Awards 2021 (Bronze Medal).

Future 2023 performances include gala concerts for True Arts TV, as well as the final rounds of the Siegfried-Szabo International Vocal Contest and the Euterpe Music Awards. Postponed engagements due to the pandemic include a recording contract with ALOM Records.

Charity’s operatic roles have encompassed: Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro); Héro (Béatrice et Bénédict); Dido (Dido and Aeneas); Aniku (Brundibár); Minerva (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria); Valencienne (Die Lustige Witwe); Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte); Zerlina (Don Giovanni); Lisette (cover; La Rondine); Melanie (Die Fledermaus); Flora, Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw); Coryphée (Le Martyre de saint Sébastien); Vixen Sharp-Ears (The Cunning Little Vixen); Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte); Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring); Lauretta (cover, Gianni Schicchi); Taumännchen, Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel); Adina (cover, L’elisir d’amore); Bellezza, Semele, Hora Seconda (L’Egisto); among others. As a soloist, she has represented British Youth Opera and sung at such venues as the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Usher Hall.

In addition to operatic and concert work, Charity has acted in feature films including Muppets Most Wanted (2014), The Riot Club (2014) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VIII) (2017), as well as taken lead roles in Back for the Future (2022), Track and Trace (2022) and The Female Gaze (2022).

Having obtained the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree while still a teenager, Charity currently holds the following qualifications with distinction: M. Mus.; B. Mus. (Hons.); LRAM; LRSM (voice); DipABRSM (voice); DipABRSM (piano).

She would like to give special thanks to her current sponsors, The Nicholas Boas Trust, as well as acknowledge past sponsorships from the following organisations: Help Musicians UK; the Royal Society of Musicians; the Equity Charitable Trust; the Royal Variety Charity; the Royal Theatrical Trust; the Actors’ Benevolent Fund; the Hope Scott Trust; the Hambleton District Trust; Markson Pianos; and the EMI Music Sound Foundation.

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