Charlotte Maclet at the age of nine became a student of Suzanne Gessner at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris. She won first prize in many national competitions (Bellan, Nérini, Radio France, Vatelot) before moving to the United States to study with Stéphane Tran Ngoc. Whilst there, she won the Concord Chamber Orchestra Competition, and later, First Prize in the J.Oestreich Scholarship, the Public Choice Prize, Prize for Best Interpretation of a Nicolas Bacri composition and the ‘Prix Jeune Prodige’ in the Archet d’Or Competition.
Charlotte went on to study with leading violinists Marie Annick Nicolas, Gabor Takacs and Gordan Nikolics. Between 2007 and 2009, she obtained her Soloist Diploma, her Postgrade Quartet Diploma, and her Masters in Education, all with Honors, at the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve. Furthermore, she is a recipient of the MILOU Foundation and won the Mark Schwok Prize in 2008.
Charlotte has been performing a broad repertoire in public from an early age: Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with the XX Arrondissement Conservatoire Orchestra in Paris (1999), Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Orchestre des Jeunes de Rhénanie West Wesphalie at the Musique de Montflanquin Festival (2000), Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Milwaukee Concord Chamber Orchestra (2001), premiere of a solo violin arrangement of the Myths by Szymanovsky at the Ernest Ansermet Radio Hall in Geneva, Bach Violin Concerto in A Minor in Paris and Mozart Violin Concerto in G Major with the Geneva Conservatoire Orchestra (2008).
A keen chamber musician, Charlotte performs regularly with various ensembles such as her piano trio, string quartet, and the Camerata Bellerive conducted by Gabor Takacs-Nagy. She has collaborated with composers such as Alfonso Montecino (piano trio première in Geneva, 2006), Henri Dutilleux (Ainsi la Nuit quartet in Victoria Hall, Geneva) and György Kurtag (Officium Breve at the Aix en Provence Festival, 2009).
In 2009 Charlotte established the Camerata Alma Viva: a string ensemble formed of fifteen musicians which she leads from the violin.
