Winner of the Loveday Song Prize at the 2024 Ferrier Awards, British soprano Charlotte Jane Kennedy is an Emerging Artist with Scottish Opera, having recently graduated from the Royal College of Music’s International Opera School, where she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rose Bowl.
During the 2026/27 season, Charlotte performs Morgana in Handel’s Alcina and Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel for Scottish Opera as well as Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Scottish Opera Orchestra at the Lammermuir Festival.
Her recent operatic roles include Sandrina in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera, the Vixen in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Mistinguett in Weill’s Chanson des Quais, all for the Royal College of Music. For Garsington Opera, she has performed Giannetta in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and as an Alvarez Emerging Artist, sang in the chorus during the company’s 2024 and 2025 seasons. She has also covered Amor in Rameau’s Platée and performed Papagena at the Garsington Opera Gala. Charlotte made her international debut as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Da Ponte Opera Festival in Vittorio Veneto, Italy.
An accomplished recitalist and concert soloist, Charlotte won the 2026 Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Award. Recent engagements include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and a selection of Strauss songs with Sinfonia Smith Square, as well as recitals at Wigmore Hall with Royal College of Music colleagues. Her competition successes include the Loveday Song Prize at the 69th Ferrier Awards, first prize in both the RCM Lieder Competition and the Lies Askonas Competition, and second prize in the AESS Patricia Routledge English Song Competition. Charlotte performs regularly on the concert platform, with recent repertoire including Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s The Creation and Nelson Mass, Bach’s Mass in B minor, and Handel’s Messiah.
Alongside her performing career, Charlotte has extensive experience in outreach and education, including work as a Learning Support Assistant and involvement with the RNCM Pathfinder Programme, the RNCM Children’s Opera Project and the London Youth Choir.
Charlotte’s studies have been generously supported by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation–Community Jameel Scholarship, the Drake Calleja Trust, the Wayne Sleep Foundation, the Josephine Baker Trust and Help Musicians.