Charlotte Mundy spends most of her time singing, listening to or thinking about contemporary music. Before joining Q2 Music, she hosted a weekly new-music show on CIUT FM in Toronto. Recently noted by the New York Times for her performance of "tart and gangly lines, well sung," she has sung in forests and abandoned warehouses, while playing a hot tub/balnophone hybrid instrument outside in the middle of winter and another time while wearing an 8-channel speaker-suit.
She is a member of Ensemble Sans Maître, The Alchemy Duo (with saxophonist Chelsea Shanoff) and Judd Greenstein's The Yehudim, and has sung with Roomful of Teeth and Tactus. A love of improvisation and collaborative theatre has led her to contribute to interdisciplinary works shown at Columbia University, The Kitchen, and the Music Gallery.
More conventional performance credits include singing with Judd Greenstein's The Yehudim at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a tribute concert for Tristan Murail at Columbia University, Cynthia Hopkins' This Clement World at St. Ann's Warehouse, and Howard Fishman's A Star Has Burnt My Eye at Joe's Pub. Mundy is a recent graduate of the Contemporary Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Lucy Shelton. For more information check out charlottemundy.com or follow @csmundy on Twitter.
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Charlotte Mundy appears in the following:
Distant Proximity
Monday, May 13, 2013
This week’s episode of The New Canon features Wolfgang Rihm’s musical meditations on the symphonies of Brahms, and electro-acoustic music from Ireland and Denmark.
I Want to Live
Monday, May 06, 2013
This week’s episode features works recordings from women’s choir The Crossing, the Molinari String Quartet, and pianist Ivan Sokolov playing Galina Ustvolskaya.
Super Collider
Monday, April 29, 2013
This week on The New Canon we listen to recordings that mix art music with folk music from Brooklyn Rider, Martin Perry and Christine Southworth.
Passing Beyond
Monday, April 22, 2013
This week’s episode of the New Canon features pianist Eve Egoyan's world premiere recordings of posthumous by Ann Southam, and music for brass by Andrew Rindfleisch. We also hear from our album of the week—a cycle of Schubert-inspired songs by David Lang that features performances by Shara Worden and Bryce Dessner.
Exploring the Border
Sunday, April 14, 2013
This week on the New Canon, we hear from Nick Brooke's "Border Towns," pairing field recordings from the U.S. border with musical quotations of early American popular music. We also sample the Del Sol Quartet's new album of folk-based American music and the Attacca Quartet's recording of John Adams's complete string quartets.
Soloistic Impulses for Viola, Harp, Piano and More
Monday, April 08, 2013
On this week's The New Canon, sample the new solo album by Brooklyn Rider violist Nicholas Cords and enjoy solos for cello, bass and harp by Samuel Adler. Also, hear selections from our current Album of the Week, "Corollaries," by virtuoso pianist/composer Lubomyr Melnyk.
On Shelter, Electricity and Polish String Quartets
Monday, April 01, 2013
This week we hear from a new compilation of contemporary Irish electroacoustic music, a recent recording of Penderecki and Lutoslawski and Ensemble Signal's new take on Shelter.
What's Baroque is New Again
Monday, March 25, 2013
On this week's episode of the New Canon, we sample Labor Records new compilation of Central and Eastern European music that uses graphic notation, percussionist Justin Dehart's solo album "Strange Paths" and our current album of the week: Nadia Sirota's "Baroque."
Musical Conversations and Winter Morning Walks
Monday, March 18, 2013
This week’s episode of The New Canon features songs for soprano and orchestra by Maria Schneider, works for solo piano by Constantine Caravassilis, and a cross-generational collaboration between Jace Clayton and the late Julius Eastman
In a Time Lapse
Monday, March 11, 2013
This week's episode of the New Canon features new electroacoustic music from pianist Ludovico Einaudi, works for cello and piano by David Wolfson and the premiere recording of Philip Glass's Cello Concerto No. 2.
Thrum – New Music for Stringed Instruments
Monday, March 04, 2013
This week on The New Canon, we hear new recordings from Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and Tim Brady as well as selections from Lark Quartet's new album featuring music of Jennifer Higdon.
The Edge of Light
Monday, February 25, 2013
This week on the New Canon, we hear a new recording of early symphonic works by Benjamin Britten performed by Amsterdam Sinfonietta, ACME's recent release featuring the compositions of Joseph Byrd and selections from "The Edge of Light", our album of the week featuring Gloria Cheng and the Calder Quartet in performance of music by Messiaen and Saariaho.
In Search of the Divine
Monday, February 18, 2013
This week on The New Canon, we hear new recordings from Louth Contemporary Music Society, exploring a wide range of music that touches on the theme of spirituality, as well as new choral music from Gabriel Jackson and cellist Alban Gerhardt's take on Benjamin Britten's music for solo cello.
(Not So) Lonesome Roads - New American Chamber Music
Monday, February 04, 2013
This week's episode of the New Canon features new music from Thea Musgrave and oboist Nicholas Daniel as well as selections from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's new disc of concertos by Thomas Oboe Lee. We'll also hear from our album of the week, an album of lyrical chamber music by composer Dan Visconti.
Journeys Through Sound
Monday, January 28, 2013
This week's episode of the New Canon features new recordings of music by Alexander Byrne, Suzanne Farrin and Béla Bartók. Listen Monday at 3 pm.
Monumental Symphonies, Simple Songs
Monday, January 21, 2013
This week's episode of the New Canon runs the gamut from complex, large scale symphonies from the likes of Henri Dutilleux (via Esa-Pekka Salonen and Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra) and Tan Dun to more intimate performances by percussionist Doug Perkins and Bill Ryan's ensemble Billband.
Happy Birthday, Witold Lutoslawski and Jean Francaix
Monday, January 14, 2013
Witold Lutoslawski would have turned 100 this month if he were still alive. This week on The New Canon, we'll hear new recordings of his music, as recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen as well as music by Pascal Dusapin and fellow centennialer Jean Francais.
Sound and Image
Monday, January 07, 2013
This week's episode of the New Canon features a new recording from French composer Paul Dusapin, an innovative pairing of Bach and Shostakovich by the baroque orchestra Ensemble Caprice and our current album of the week, Paul Moravec's "Northern Lights Electric." Hear the whole show on demand.
Viola Viola
Monday, December 31, 2012
This week on The New Canon, we hear new recordings of music by Poul Ruders, George Benjamin, Barbara Pentland and Benjamin Britten
A Ceremony of Carols
Monday, December 24, 2012
This week's episode of The New Canon features new recordings of music by Benjamin Britten, Edison Denisov and Lei Liang, whose latest disc marrying Chinese and European modernist traditions is our album of the week. Listen to the show on demand.

