Catherine Charlton's "shimmering soprano" is familiar to North Carolina audiences. She performed on several occasions under the baton of Maestro Gerhardt Zimmermann both in Raleigh with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra and in Ohio with the Canton Symphony. Maestro Zimmermann invited her to be one of the guest soloists for his final concert as Music Director of the NCSO in May, 2003 in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy.
Catherine has appeared with orchestras and choral ensembles throughout the eastern United States and abroad, including the New Orleans Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Mid-Texas Symphony, the Orchestra of the Southern Fingerlakes, the Tar River Orchestra, the Raleigh Oratorio Society, Durham, Hickory, Johnston County, and Jefferson County (VA) Choral Societies, as well as the University of Maryland and American University choruses in repertoire including Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor, Mendelssohn's Elijah and others. She has been featured in a broadcast with the Mallarme Chamber Players performing Ravel's Chansons Madecasses on WUNC radio, and has performed with the Opera Company of North Carolina at Raleigh's First Night Celebration singing the role of Lucy in Menotti's The Telephone and also was featured in OCNC's Carolina Voices concert in 2004. She performed with the Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra in February 2006 along with fellow sopranos Jacquelyn Culpepper and Katherine Luna in "Viva la Diva", a program modeled after the popular Three Tenors programs. Catherine has performed at the American Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Cullowhee Music Festival, Seagle Colony, at An Appalachian Summer Music Festival and at the Breckenridge Music Festival in Colorado, singing repertoire from Mozart to Gershwin.
An active recitalist, Catherine has been presented on recital series in New York, Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Connecticut, North Carolina and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. A recipient of several awards and scholarships over the years, Catherine is most proud of being the recipient of a Teacher Recognition Award in June, 2004 from the United States Presidential Scholars program, one of only 141 given nationally. Holding degrees from Trinity University in San Antonio Texas and The Ohio State University, Catherine has served on the faculties of The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, Meredith College, and St. Mary's School in Raleigh.
Catherine and her husband Glenn White have three children: Taylor, 23, an illustrator currently living in Oslo, Norway (www.taylor-white.com); Sally, 21, in her final year at the United States Military Academy at West Point; and Peter, 18, a freshman at St. Johns College.
Catherine has appeared with orchestras and choral ensembles throughout the eastern United States and abroad, including the New Orleans Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Mid-Texas Symphony, the Orchestra of the Southern Fingerlakes, the Tar River Orchestra, the Raleigh Oratorio Society, Durham, Hickory, Johnston County, and Jefferson County (VA) Choral Societies, as well as the University of Maryland and American University choruses in repertoire including Orff's Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor, Mendelssohn's Elijah and others. She has been featured in a broadcast with the Mallarme Chamber Players performing Ravel's Chansons Madecasses on WUNC radio, and has performed with the Opera Company of North Carolina at Raleigh's First Night Celebration singing the role of Lucy in Menotti's The Telephone and also was featured in OCNC's Carolina Voices concert in 2004. She performed with the Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra in February 2006 along with fellow sopranos Jacquelyn Culpepper and Katherine Luna in "Viva la Diva", a program modeled after the popular Three Tenors programs. Catherine has performed at the American Music Festival, Blossom Music Festival, Cullowhee Music Festival, Seagle Colony, at An Appalachian Summer Music Festival and at the Breckenridge Music Festival in Colorado, singing repertoire from Mozart to Gershwin.
An active recitalist, Catherine has been presented on recital series in New York, Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Connecticut, North Carolina and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. A recipient of several awards and scholarships over the years, Catherine is most proud of being the recipient of a Teacher Recognition Award in June, 2004 from the United States Presidential Scholars program, one of only 141 given nationally. Holding degrees from Trinity University in San Antonio Texas and The Ohio State University, Catherine has served on the faculties of The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, Meredith College, and St. Mary's School in Raleigh.
Catherine and her husband Glenn White have three children: Taylor, 23, an illustrator currently living in Oslo, Norway (www.taylor-white.com); Sally, 21, in her final year at the United States Military Academy at West Point; and Peter, 18, a freshman at St. Johns College.
