Charlotte Yates
is a recording artist based in Wellington, New Zealand where she has
released five albums of her own material on Jayrem Records. (Latest
release Beggar's Choice was released May 2008) Her
first album Queen Charlotte Sounds was released in
1991. The single Red Letter was an APRA Silver Scroll finalist.
Melbourne-based from 1993 to 1996, Charlotte directed the 1993 and 1994
Melbourne Fringe Arts Festivals. She studied Contemporary Music Technology
and Composition at La Trobe University, Melbourne during 1995. Recorded
in Sydney, Charlotte's second album The Desire and the Contempt
won the Singer-Songwriter category at the 1997 Wellington Music Awards.
Thirty of Charlotte's
lyrics were collated as One Lady Driver and published
in March 1999. Her lyrics also feature in How You Doing an
anthology of NZ comic verse. She is a regular columnist for NZ Musician
and NZ Books and released her third album Dead Fish Beach in
May 2001.
Charlotte is the director and producer for Baxter,
a compilation CD of James K Baxter's poetry set to music by twelve NZ
recording artists. Performances of Baxter featured
in the NZ Festival 2000, the Taranaki & Christchurch Arts Festivals
in 2001 & Hamilton's FUEL Festival, 2002.
Charlotte was the artist-in-residence at the Christchurch Arts Centre
during April/May 2002 where she concentrated on songwriting and guitar
performance. She has toured extensively with fellow singer/songwriter
Mahinarangi Tocker. The live album of their concerts, Touring,
was released September 2002. Her fourth album plainsong
was released in May 2003. In June, she joined the NZ Music Commission's
Musician Mentoring in Schools Programme.
Charlotte was commissioned by Toi Maori Aotearoa to produce Tuwhare,
a compilation CD where NZ recording artists set poetry by Hone Tuwhare
to their music. Tuwhare was released in May 2005. Charlotte produced
and directed the subsequent concert series at the Wellington Town Hall
for the 2006 NZ International Festival of the Arts and the Auckland
Festival, March 2007. Her fifth solo album Beggar's Choice
was released May 2008.
http://www.cdkiwi.com/popmusic1.htm
Photo by Mark Coote
Commissions
2010 Composer, Giggles (Series 2) production music for Gibson Group, TVNZ - TV6
2009 Round Oriental Bay
Commissioned Setting of Lauris Edmond’s poem
for Toi Whakaari/NZ Drama School
2009 Composer, Giggles,
theme and production music for Gibson Group TV6
2005 TVC -Living in your Family
Families Commission, nationwide radio/tv campaign
2004 Song for Film - Lament for Ana
Wong Cha Cha directed by Alex Lee
2001 TV Theme Music - What Now TV
TVNZ (TV2) - theme and incidental music
2000 Soundtrack for Video/DVD - Clean As
MediaWorks for Ministry of Health
1998/9 TVC's -The Browser/Kiwi Mail/Letterbox Channel/Divine
Ice cream - The Bridge
1998 Song for dvd/live performance/cd
Stand - Parade 98 Tribute - Agenda Marketing
1997 Music for Theatre - The Love of a Nightingale
Toi Whakaari/NZ Drama School graduate production
1996 Music for Theatre - Vinegar Tom - music for
Caryl Churchill's text - Toi Whakaari/NZ Drama School graduate production
1993 Songs for Cassette - Votes for Women
(with When the Cat's Been Spayed) - NZ Correspondence School
1992 TVC - Williams Garden World
Yeti Productions
Song Placements
Television
2008 - Stage Challenge
2000-2007 Shortland Street - South Pacific Pictures
2004 Frontseat - Gibson Group Ltd
2001-2003 The Strip - Gibson Group Ltd
2000 Hopeless - Kahukura Productions
1999 Jackson's Wharf - South Pacific Pictures
Film
2005 Straight Talk - dir. Tilly Flood
1999 Hopeless - dir. Stephen Parry