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Charlie Piper (b. 1982) is a London based composer. He completed his master's degree with distinction at the Royal College of Music, studying with David Sawer and Michael Zev Gordon, as a scholar with support from a Winifred Law Award, The South Square Trust, The Leverhulme Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is currently doing doctoral research at the Royal Academy of Music under the supervision of Philip Cashian, with funding from the AHRC.
He has been performed at the Cheltenham, Huddersfield, Gaudeamus (Netherlands) and Bang-On-A-Can (USA) Festivals, the Barbican Hall, the South Bank Centre, the Roundhouse and King's Place. Performers have included the London Symphony Orchestra, Apartment House, The Esbjerg Ensemble (Denmark), Musica Vitae (Sweden), the Radius Ensemble, the Orkest 'de ereprijs' (Netherlands), CHROMA, the Ossian Ensemble, the English National Ballet and individuals such Rolf Hind, Noriko Ogawa, Sarah Nicolls, Brindley Sherratt, Xian Zhang, Laurence Cummings, François-Xavier Roth and Yan Pascal Tortelier.
Awards include the 2006 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and the 2007 prize at the 13th International Young Composers Meeting in Apeldoorn.
As a member of the Camberwell Composers Collective, Charlie was a Kettle's Yard New Music Associate 2008-2010.
Future projects include new works for Sentieri Selvaggi, TRANSIT and Les Siècles.