Charlotte Kaiser
born in 1996, discovered the mandolin when she was five years old and made music the center of her life. 2023 she completed her artistic master’s degree with Juan Carlos Muñoz at the University of Music Saar (Germany).
In addition to her solo activities, the young mandolinist appears in varied chamber music ensembles and orchestras performing internationally. As a successful participant in national and international competitions, scholarship holder of various funding programs and twice concertmaster of the European Mandolin and Guitar Youth Orchestra (EGMYO) she takes part in various concerts and productions with mandolin and mandola.
In 2019 she founded the “Bundesjugendzupforchester” (German Guitar and Mandolin Youth Orchestra) together with Clara Weise and Laura Engelmann. She has been awarded several scholarships – for example Charlotte received a scholarship endowed by the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Organization. During the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festivals 2017 and 2018 she played several concerts in the mandolin orchestra, a selected ensemble and as a soloist as part of the concert series "Meisterstudent - Meister" with Avi Avital. As a mandolinist, she has been engaged several times for productions by the Saarländisches Staatstheater and the Theater Koblenz. Charlotte was awarded the second prize of the 2018 Yasuo Kuwahara Competition for Solo Mandolin within the framework of the International Music Competitions of Schweinfurt (Germany). With her NOROC Quartett (Charlotte Kaiser, mandolin / Jolina Beuren, mandolin / Maja Schütze, octave mandolin / Philipp Lang, guitar) she was a finalist of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb (German Music Competition) 2022.
Charlotte owes significant musical impulses to master courses with Avi Avital, Carlo Aonzo, Dietmar Wiesner and Vincent Beer-Demander with whom she studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège (Belgium). Since 2023 she is part of the TONALi Academy in Hamburg.