Charlotte, from Clapham, south London, did not really discover classical music until she began revising for her exams. “My parents don’t really listen to classical music,” she admits, “but I began listening to Classic FM when I was revising for my GCSEs because a friend told me it was the best kind of music to listen to when you revise because it doesn’t interrupt your studies.” At age 11 Charlotte joined the National Youth Music Theatre and performed in a touring production of Pendragon in Japan, as well as appearing in summer productions in London, Devon and Edinburgh with NYMT and its successor YMT: UK. “I’ve done more acting than singing so far,” admits Charlotte, who says her first love is musical theatre, and that she would like one day to tread the boards of the West End stage. To the envy of nearly all her friends, she appeared briefly as a student in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire, and in 2004 played the lead in a short film The Open Doors with Michael Sheen and Cheri Lunghi. “I love going out with my friends and listening to music - I love when people send me new bands – old and new - that I haven’t heard of. At the moment I’m listening to Jeff Buckley, Counting Crows and a lot of Cuban music. And of course my brother’s band Sevenball!” Charlotte is appearing in The Pierglass, at the Young Pleasance Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2006, and is also a big fan of musicals like Les Mis, Miss Saigon and Blood Brothers – “gritty things that are about more than show tunes”. She says of All Angels: “Classical music always seems so far away from the mainstream but lots of my friends now listen to it. And I don’t think it should be looked at in that snobby way. I think we are relatively normal so it brings the music to a level everyone can access.”