Charlotte Giraudeau

Born in 2008, Charlotte began her music studies at the age of five and is currently under the instruction of Professor Marilyn Engle of the University of Calgary. She is a Mount Royal University Academy for Young Artists scholarship recipient.

Charlotte is a prize-winner in numerous national and international competitions, including the Canadian Music Competition, the Franz Liszt Centre International Piano Competition (2022 and 2023), and the San Francisco Articiál International Piano Competition in 2022. In 2023, the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition (USA), the Beecham International Piano Competition (UK), and the Steinway Piano Competition Canada. She is the first-prize winner of the 2024 Aloha and IPPA International Piano Competitions and the third-prize winner of the 2025 Canadian Chopin Competition and second-prize winner of the 2025 ARMTA Competition. She is a winner of the 2025 Calgary Concerto Competition and performed Rachmaninoff’s fourth concerto with the Calgary Civic Symphony. She won first place in the 2023 and 2024 Lancaster International Piano and Chamber Music Festival with her chamber group.

Charlotte has participated in many masterclasses such as the 2022 Morningside Music Bridge, the 2023 and 2025 Gina Bachauer Piano Festival, and the 2023 Talent Summer Master Courses and Festival in Brescia, Italy. In 2024, the Art of the Piano Festival at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the CMC Gathering of the Stars Festival and the International Music Festival in Bern, Switzerland.

Charlotte debuted in the 2024 Canada’s Rising Stars 20th Anniversary Concert in Canmore, Alberta. In 2025, she performed in the High River Gift of Music Young Musicians Extraordinaire Concert Series.

She has had many opportunities to study with artists, including Arie Vardi, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Sasha Starcevich, Wha Kyung Byun, Gerlinde Otto, Bernd Goetzke, Henry Kramer, Nicolas Namoradze, and Sir Stephen Hough.

In addition to her piano studies, she organizes the Capriccio International Young Artists and regularly performs young artist concerts for Calgary's senior communities. She is also a member of the Back to Bach Foundation. Aside from her music activities, she enjoys skiing in the Rockies, swimming and doing math contests.