The Festival:
"Fletching is a place where music and words are given room to breathe and to experience music performance in a fresh and innovative light. This festival doesn’t just present concerts — it offers encounters: between audience and artist, between tradition and imagination, and between people who may never have met otherwise.”
Isabelle Peters & Charlotte Scott [ Co Festival Founders]
Meet the Co-founders:
Charlotte Scott:
As a highly sought after violinist and collaborator, Charlotte enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician and director. Discographies that received high critical acclaim include recordings for Linn Records, Champs Hill and Apple Music.
Co-founder and first violinist of the Oculi Ensemble, Charlotte previously held the latter position in the Piatti- and Badke Quartets. As a passionate director and concertmaster, she frequently plays with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Musica Vitae, English Chamber Orchestra and various others worldwide.
Regular performances both as a soloist and chamber musician include venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw and Festival Hall, as well as an array of international summer chamber music festivals.
Charlotte plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivarius 1685 “Gagliano”.
Isabelle Peters:
British soprano, Isabelle Peters,was a former English National Opera 'Harewood Artist', Welsh National Opera Associate Artist, and an alumna of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Northern College of Music.Isabelle regularly appears on major UK Opera stages; most recently she appeared as 'Mabel' in English National Opera's revival of Mike Leigh's Pirates of Penzance, followed closely by her return to Garsington Opera as 'Marzelline' in their season revival of Fidelio. Isabelle made her Royal Opera House debut in the role of ‘Sigismondo’ in Handel’s Arminio to critical acclaim and made her Opera North debut last Autumn as Nannetta in Olivia Fuchs Falstaff. Isabelle is a passionate concert recitalist; her most recently engagements include The Royal Opera House Crush Room together with Dylan Perez, BBC Hoddinott Hall recital with Malcolm Martineau and Oxford International Song Festival with Sholto Kynoch. Isabelle had the pleasure of joining Chineke! Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the UK premiere of Garcia’s Requiem. She is a 2022 Classic fm “30 Under 30 Rising Star” and finalist of both the Voice of a Black Opera and the ROSL Annual Music Competition.
