Charlie Siem
Biography
Born in London to a Norwegian father and a British mother, Charlie began to play the violin at the age of three, after hearing a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by the late Yehudi Menuhin. Charlie was educated at Eton College and read music at Girton College, Cambridge. He furthered his violin studies with tutors from The Guildhall School of Music and The Royal College of Music.
Charlie has appeared with orchestras around the world, including the Royal Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Israel Camerata and Bergen Philharmonic, and at festivals including St Moritz, Gstaad, Spoleto and Windsor. In 2008 Charlie toured the UK with the Moscow Philharmonic, playing Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto to great critical acclaim.
Charlie’s debut CD was released in 2008 and featured violin sonatas by Grieg and Elgar. In 2010 he signed to Warner Classics and Jazz and has already produced a critically acclaimed album, which includes spectacular virtuoso repertoire from the great violin masters Paganini, Sarasate, Wieniawski and Kreisler.
In June 2011 he was personally invited by Lady Gaga to perform for her in New York at her Fashion Icon Award party. He has a great interest in fashion and is currently the global face of the Alfred Dunhill label. He has appeared in many publications, including Italian Men’s Vogue, photographs for which were taken by the singer Bryan Adams, with whom Charlie subsequently appeared in concert.
Charlie's new album 'Charlie Siem – Bruch, Wieniawski, Ole Bull' will be released in the UK in August 2011.
In October you can catch him at Classic FM Live, when he’ll be performing the Finale from Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 and Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending.
See Charlie Siem recording and talking about his new album in the video below.
