During the 2023-24 season, Charity Mapletoft made her Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Stiftung Mozarteum Groẞer Saal solo debuts to international critical acclaim, having been offered a series of summer and winter concerts.
Charity is humbled and thankful that her competition success continues to lead to engagements in the U. S. A., Japan and mainland Europe, having won almost exclusively first and grand prizes in over forty international competitions since 2021. Notable competitions include:
Grand and/or First Prize: Carl Reinecke International Music Competition 2025 (First Prize (Platinum Award) in Classical Voice; First Prize (Platinum Award) in Musical Theatre/Opera; First Prize (Platinum Award) in Classical Music (c. 1750-1830); Remarkable Musicianship Special Prize); US-Canadian International Music Competition 2025 (First Prize); The New York Classical Music Competition 2024-2025 (First Prize); International Mozart Competition Vienna 2024-25 (First Prize); Francesca Lebrun Voice Competition 2024 (Grand Prize, Diamond Prize (Classical Voice); Tziano Rossetti & Lugano International Voice Competition 2024 (First Prize); PicaSchubert International Music & Art Competition 2024 (Best Overall Performance, Diamond Prize (Professional Overall), Diamond Prize (Classical Singer); American Classical Music Awards 2024 (Gold Prize); International Music Leadership Awards 2024 (Best Overall Performance, Best Classical Vocalist); Bizet International Music Competition 2023 (Grand Prize, Absolute First Prize, Special Technical Award); Canadian International Music Competition 2023 (Platinum Award); Euterpe Music Awards 2023 (Gold Prize, Best Emerging Artist Prize); Saint-Saëns International Music Competition 2023 (Platinum Award, Excellent Technique Award); Trinity International Music Competition 2023 (Platinum Award); Bach International Music Competition 2023 (Absolute First Prize, Excellent Interpretation Special Award); Amadeus International Music Awards 2023 (First Prize, Best Emerging Talent Award); European Classical Music Awards 2023 (Grand Prize, Platinum Award); Elizabeth Music Competition 2023 (Platinum Award, Master of Emotion Special Award); U. K. International Music Competition 2023; (Absolute First Prize, Expressive Performance Special Prize); Debussy International Music Competition (Absolute First Prize); International BTHVN Wien Music Competition 2023 (First Prize); Charleston International Eighteenth-Century Music Competition 2023 (First Prize); Medici International Music Competition 2023 (First Prize); Royale Music Competition 2023 (Diamond Prize, Technical Marvel Special Award); International Mozart Competition Vienna 2023 (First Prize); London Classical Music Competition 2023 (First Prize); Vivaldi International Music Competition 2022 (First Prize with Excellence Nomination); New York Global Music Competition 2022; American Virtuoso International Music Competition 2022 (First Prize); Las Conchillas International Music Competition Chile 2022 (Grand Prize, First Prize); London International Music Competition 2022 (First Prize); Franz Schubert International Music Competition 2022 (First Prize); Trinity International Music Competition 2022 (Gold Medal); World Classical Music Awards 2021 (Grand Prize, and First Prize in the Baroque, Modern and Age 26+ categories); Beethoven International Music Competition 2021 (First Prize); Clara Schumann International Music Competition 2021 (First Prize); OSAKA International Music Competition 2021 (New York Regional Round Chief Executive Award, First Prize nominee).
Second Prize: Edit Siegfried-Szabo International Vocal Contest 2023; International BTHVN Wien Music Competition 2022; Amadeus International Music Awards 2022; Birmingham International Music Competition 2022; Chicago International Music Competition 2021; Rising Stars Grand Prix – International Music Competition Berlin 2021.
Third Prize: The North International Music Competition, Stockholm 2021 (qualified for Second Prize); Global Music Awards 2021 (Bronze Medal).
Future 2024-25 performances include gala concerts for True Arts TV, as well as further international competition semi-finals and finals rounds. Postponed engagements due to the pandemic include a recording contract with ALOM Records.
Feeling equally at home on the operatic stage as well as the concert platform, Charity’s operatic roles have encompassed: Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro); Héro (Béatrice et Bénédict); Dido (Dido and Aeneas); Aniku (Brundibár); Minerva (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria); Valencienne (Die Lustige Witwe); Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte); Zerlina (Don Giovanni); Lisette (cover, La Rondine); Melanie (Die Fledermaus); Flora, Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw); Coryphée (Le Martyre de saint Sébastien); Vixen Sharp-Ears (The Cunning Little Vixen); Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte); Israelite Mother (First Woman) (Solomon); Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring); Lauretta (cover, Gianni Schicchi); Taumännchen, Sandmännchen (Hänsel und Gretel); Adina (cover, L’elisir d’amore); Bellezza, Semele, Hora Seconda (L’Egisto); among others. As a soloist, she has represented British Youth Opera and sung at such venues as the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Usher Hall.
In addition to operatic and concert work, Charity has acted in feature films
including Muppets Most Wanted (2014), The Riot Club (2014) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Episode VIII) (2017), as well as taken lead roles in Back for the Future (2022), Track and Trace (2022) and The Female Gaze (2022).
Having obtained the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree while still a teenager, Charity currently holds the following qualifications with distinction: M. Mus.; B. Mus. (Hons.); LRAM (voice, soprano); LRSM (voice); DipABRSM (voice); DipABRSM (piano); LAMDA Gold Medal (acting).
She would like to give special thanks to her current sponsors, The Nicholas Boas Trust, as well as acknowledge past sponsorships from the following organisations: Help Musicians UK; the Royal Society of Musicians; the Equity Charitable Trust; the Royal Variety Charity; the Royal Theatrical Trust; the Actors’ Benevolent Fund; the Hope Scott Trust; the Hambleton District Trust; Markson Pianos; and the EMI Music Sound Foundation.
You can find Charity’s 2023 18th Century Music Competition vocal performance here.
Watch Charity Mapletoft sing ‘Temerari, sortite … Come scoglio’ from Così fan tutte by W. A. Mozart for the 2025 Classical Music Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.