Caroline Charrière was born in Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1960, graduated in flute from the Lausanne Conservatory (under Pierre Wavre) and continued her studies with Aurèle Nicolet and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (UK). At the same time, she studied
orchestration and composition with the Swiss composer Jean Balissat. Since the autumn of 2000, Caroline Charrière has devoted herself mainly to composition.
At the beginning of 2017, she won a competition for a one-year stay at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, where she intends to devote most of her time to composing a passion. In the summer of 2017, she was awarded second prize for her composition ‘Awakening’ at ‘Aufbruch für zwei Trompeten, Horn, Posaune und Tuba’, an international composition competition for women composers. Her extensive catalogue of works includes instrumental and chamber music as well as choral and orchestral pieces. In addition to her work as a composer, she teaches theory and flute at the Freiburg Conservatory and conducts the women’s choir Choeur de Jade.
www.carolinecharriere.ch
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