Charlotte Church

Biography

Biography

Charlotte Church is a Welsh classical singer, pop artist and TV presenter. She rose to fame in childhood with her chart-topping rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Pie Jesu’, and has since become one of the classical crossover genre’s most successful artists.

Charlotte Church – from child star to versatile soprano

Charlotte Church: singing career, family, house and more facts about the Welsh soprano

Charlotte Church faces claims she is running an 'illegal' school

Singer Charlotte Church faces claims she is running an ‘illegal’ home school

Hayley Westenra singing 'Pie Jesu'

What are the lyrics to ‘Pie Jesu’?

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Bryn Terfel singing at Nobel Peace Prize

Wales’ finest: 15 of the best Welsh musicians

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Paul McCartney

Classical Music Rocks! 20 of the best rock and classical crossovers

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Clara Schumann

John Williams

Ludovico Einaudi

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Frédéric Chopin

Latest on Classic FM

Cate Blanchett stars as tyrannical ‘maestro’ Lydia Tár in Oscar-tipped movie ‘TÁR’

TÁR: who is Lydia Tár, what’s the music and how did Cate Blanchett learn to conduct?

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ORA SIngers at the Tate Modern

40 socially-distanced singers performing ‘Spem in alium’ at the Tate Modern is profoundly uplifting
A silhouette of two violinists against sheet music.

New report reveals ‘devastating scale’ of harassment and discrimination in the music industry
Lizzo performs on a crystal flute, courtesy of the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C.

Lizzo makes history by playing the Library of Congress’ 200-year-old crystal flute

Videos

Elgar’s greatest compositions

10 of Elgar’s greatest pieces of music

Elgar

Christmas music by members of the Durham Cathedral Choir

O Magnum Mysterium: what are the lyrics, and which composers have set it?

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Two masked flute players in a Hong Kong propaganda video.

Hong Kong propaganda video showing ‘double-masked’ flute players catches attention

Coronavirus

Music literacy matters T-shirt

‘I like to eat puppies’ – viral t-shirt shows why musical literacy is important

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Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022: shortlisted artists include Anna Lapwood, Mitsuko Uchida and Kirill Petrenko

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2022: how to watch, and all the nominated artists

Events

This week’s on-air highlights – including Album of the Week and Drive Discovery

This week’s radio highlights – including Album of the Week and Drive Discovery