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Charlotte Glasson (Born 1 March 1973, London) is a multi instrumentalist, band leader, composer and session player, playing soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, flute, alto flute, piccolo, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin and viola, penny whistle, melodica, percussion, and saw.

Early Life
Charlotte started playing violin at the age of 5, got a guitar when she was 7 and taught herself how to play Beatle tunes, and then got a saxophone for Christmas when she was 12. Charlotte went on to study Music at Kingston University, after which she progressed into a career as a session musician, band leader and composer/arranger.

Career
Equally at home playing jazz, classical music, blues, soul, funk, latin, country and everything in between she’s kept busy on the music scene. She has also composed music for an Art Installation at The Ashmoleon museum in Oxford with Chinese Artist Qu Leilei, and music for theatre performances by George Dillon.

Bands and Solo Artist Discography
as Charlotte Glasson/Charlotte Glasson Band


 * Escapade


 * Travels with Charlotte Glasson


 * Charlotte’s World Wide Web


 * Playground


 * Live


 * Festivus

other projects
 * Que Pasa: Glass Blower - Latin Jazz with Chris Kibble on piano, Quentin Colllins on trumpet, and Adam Riley on drums


 * Lazy Days - with Jez Tonkin


 * Shadow Dance - with Dan Hewson


 * Tritones - with Sam Arts and Sam Glasson

as a session musician

James Blackshaw - All Is Falling, Holly EP, Fantomas

The Divine Comedy - Casanova, A Short Album About Love, Fin de Siècle, Victory for the Comic Muse, Bang Goes the Knighthood

Claire Martin - Take My Heart, Perfect Alibi

Oasis - Standing on the Shoulder of Giants

Nerina Pallot - The Graduate

Chris Spedding - Pearls

UNKLE - The Knock On Effect

Jah Wobble - Fly

Session Musician
As a session musician, Charlotte has worked with amongst others:

Alan Barnes The Brighton Beach Boys James Blackshaw Cubana Bop Lorraine Bowen Rob Bravery Cache Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Cool Music

John Cooper Clarke The Divine Comedy Heather Cornell David Coulter Lea DeLaria Steve Ellis Digby Fairweather Herbie Flowers Antonio Forcionne Will Gaines Nigel Godrich Ian Hamer Gavin Jones Robin Jones Stephen Kalinich The Karelia Ladyhawke Bill Laswell The Jiving Lindy Hoppers The Lost and Found Orchestra

The Damage Manual Claire Martin John Martyn Guy Massey Bobby Matos Big Band Metheny Jim Mullen The Mummers Andy Newmark Oasis Oriole Orlando Nerina Pallot Daniel Pemberton Steve Power PJ Proby Bah Samba Ian Shaw Andrew Skeet Snowboy Chris Spedding

Paul Stacey and Jeremy Stacey Spike Stent Joby Talbot Pucho and The Latin Soul Brothers

Three Bonzos and A Piano

Three Friends playing music of Gentle Giant

Unkle Foy Vance Diana Vickers Julian Lloyd Webber Reuben Wilson Jah Wobble Murray Young Will Young

Film and Television work

A Field In England - composer Jim Williams - viola

Moshi Monsters: The Movie - composer - Sanj Sen - bass clarinet, clarinet, flute, alto flute, piccolo

Bad Girls - appearing in the tv series 2 and 3 - tenor sax

A Mother ‘s Son - composer Daniel Pemberton - viola

Money - composer Daniel Pemberton - tenor and alto sax

Vanity Fair - composer Murray Gold - baritone sax

Desperate Romantics - composer Daniel Pemberton - baritone sax

"Pg-Tips" advert- Joby Talbot - baritone sax

"Young Musician of the Year" theme Joby Talbot - soprano sax

"Tomorrows World" theme - composer Neil Hannon/Joby Talbot - flute sax

Ice Road Truckers - composer Daniel Pemberton - flute viola sax

Compositions and Arrangements
theatre plays by George Dillon:

Graft

Hell and other stories

The Gospel of Matthew

The man who was Hamlet

Hamlet

‘Everyone’s Life is an Epic’, an Art Installation at The Ashmoleon museum in Oxford with Chinese Artist Qu Leilei.