Charlotte Giraudeau

Born in 2008, Charlotte Giraudeau 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 member of the Calgary Pro Musica Young Artist Development Program.

Charlotte is a prize-winner in numerous national and international competitions, including the Canadian Music, Franz Liszt Centre, San Francisco Articiál, Bradshaw & Buono, Beecham, Steinway, Aloha, and IPPA International Piano Competitions. In 2025, she was the third-prize winner of the Canadian Chopin Competition, second-prize winner of the ARMTA Competition, and gold-medalist of the International Keyboard Odyssiad Competition, in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is a winner of the 2025 Calgary Concerto Competition and performed Rachmaninoff’s fourth concerto with the Calgary Civic Symphony.

An avid chamber musician, Charlotte along with her chamber group have won top prizes in many chamber music competitions including the first place in the 2023 and 2024 Lancaster International Piano and Chamber Music Festival.

Charlotte has participated in many masterclasses including the Morningside Music Bridge (2022), the Gina Bachauer Piano Festival (2023, 2025), the Talent Summer Master Courses and Festival in Brescia, Italy (2023), the Art of the Piano Festival at SFCM (2024), the CMC Gathering of the Stars Festival (2024, 2025) and the International Music Festival in Bern, Switzerland (2024).

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.