Charlotte Leamon is a Sydney-based composer and sound artist who composes radical sound worlds often centred around environmental topics and issues. Charlotte writes in various medias including chamber, electroacoustic, multimedia and theatre. A recipient of the Chandler Scholarship, Charlotte was awarded First Class Honours for a Bachelor of Music (Composition) from the Sydney Conservatorium where her pieces have been workshopped by the Australian String Quartet, Opera Australia Orchestra, and recorded by the Sydney Youth Orchestra. 

 

In 2025, Charlotte’s works will be showcased in London as part of the International Sound Art Exhibition, in Melbourne at Sleepless Festival in Footscray, and in Berlin for the Artspring Lauschsalon. Charlotte was selected for the Hatched mentorship with Ensemble Offspring where she will be mentored by Holly Harrison. She is also selected to participate in the Illuminated NOW! Emerging Composer program, and will write a piece for the Australian Haydn Ensemble later this year. Charlotte is curating a concert in 2025 to display her works alongside Dr. Ivan Zavada and peers who travelled to Bangkok in 2023 as part of the Global Mobility scholarship.

 

Recent highlights include a world premiere by Corvus Ensemble in Fairbanks (Alaska) as part of the program 'Composing in the Wilderness'. Her series of works titled Refractional were commissioned by RMIT and premiered at the Melbourne Recital centre, and her works have been displayed at the ‘Inner West Sounds’ festival, Australasian Computer Music Conference and the Whispers and Roars Festival. Charlotte has curated acousmatic and installation concerts featuring Daniel Blinkhorn and Alexis Weaver, and in late 2024 she curated a multi-channel, multimedia concert for her newly released album Clusters and Bubbles. 

 

Charlotte’s sound design for theatre has been showcased nationally and internationally in Edinburgh, New York and New Zealand. She has received runner up in her sound design for the Sydney Broadway World Awards in 2022.