Charlie Piper is a London-based composer. He completed his master’s degree at the Royal College of Music, studying with David Sawer and Michael Zev Gordon, and recently completed doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music under the supervision of Philip Cashian.

His music has been performed at the Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Gaudeamus, Mizzou, Bang-On-A-Can, and Aix-en-Provence Festivals, the Barbican Hall, the Southbank Centre, the Roundhouse, Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, Hoddinott Hall, and Le Grand Théâtre de Provence. Notable performers have included the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Britten Sinfonia, Asko Schönberg, the London Sinfonietta, Alarm Will Sound, Les Siècles, Sentieri Selvaggi, the Orkest ‘de ereprijs’, CHROMA and conductors Yan Pascal Tortelier, Xian Zhang, François-Xavier Roth, Martyn Brabbins and Pierre-André Valade. He has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 (Netherlands).

Charlie is the 2012–15 Associate Composer with Music in the Round, in Sheffield, working closely with Ensemble 360.