Praised for her “pliant mezzo” (South Florida Classical Review), “pleasant tone” (Dallas Morning News), and “resonant, round sound” (Miami Arts Review), Charlotte Stewart is a versatile performer whose scope extends from the medieval to the contemporary. A former chorister at Washington National Cathedral, she has had the privilege of singing many events of national importance for state and foreign dignitaries including sitting and former presidents, congressional leaders, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the Dalai Lama, and services including the funerals of Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, Dick Cheney, and Madeleine Albright, the memorials for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Neil Armstrong, Colin Powell, Jane Goodall, Ash Carter, Matthew Shepard, and the 9/11 National Prayer Service.

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Some of her favorite performances with the Washington National Cathedral Choirs over the last nearly 30 years have included Handel’s Messiah; Bach’s St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion; the Howells, Mozart, Duruflé, Fauré and Victoria Requiems; Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Rejoice in the Lamb, and Noye’s Fludde; Allegri, Josquin, Nystedt, and Macmillan Misereres, Leighton’s Easter Sequence, Vivaldi’s Gloria; Walton’s The Twelve, Tallis’ Spem in Alium, and Corigliano’s Fern Hill, as well as the 50th Anniversary Tribute to Apollo 8, presented in conjunction with NASA; the National Veterans Day Tribute Concert with “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, and the Cathedral’s annual Independence Day Concert. She appears as a soloist on the Cathedral albums America the Beautiful, Stephen Caracciolo: New American Choral Music with Cathedra, and as cantor and a featured vocalist on Sing in Exultation: Carols from Washington National Cathedral, conducted by James Litton. 

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Charlotte has performed with many of the DC area’s leading ensembles, including the Wolf Trap Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Opera Lafayette, Washington Bach Consort, the National Symphony Orchestra, The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Thirteen, the 21st Century Consort, Folger Consort, Chantry, and the DC Singer Collective, and appears on twelve recorded albums. 

 

Operatic credits include Carmen and La Traviata with Wolf Trap Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra, Lakmé, Nabucco, Louisa Miller, La Rondine, Manon Lescaut, Iphigénie en Tauride, Pearl Fishers, Idomeneo, and La Clemenza do Tito with Washington Concert Opera, Der Rosenkavalier at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, Dido and Aeneas and Lalla Roukh with Opera Lafayette, and The Ballad of Baby Doe at the Washington National Opera Institute. Other operatic credits include L’incoronazione di Poppea, Albert Herring, The Magic Flute, Hänsel und Gretel, Cendrillon, La Cenerentola, L'Enfant et les Sortileges, and Suor Angelica. She returns to Opera Lafayette this season for Rameau’s Les Surprises de l’Amour, and also recently appeared in Telemann's Don Quixote with Mountainside Baroque.

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As as soloist, her concert repertoire includes Bach’s St. John Passion, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio,  Bach's Mass in B Minor, Bach's Magnificat, Handel's Messiah, Duruflé’s Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi's Messa da Requiem, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, D’Astorga’s Stabat Mater, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Mozart’s Solemn Vespers, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem and Liebeslieder Waltzes, Haydn's Creation, and numerous Bach cantatas.

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Stewart’s extensive work in contemporary music includes solo appearances in the world premieres of Christopher Patton’s Out of Darkness with the 21st Century Consort and Nisan Ak’s Singing Bindings at the Smithsonian, as well as the world premiere of Trevor Weston’s Wash Me Thoroughly at Washington National Cathedral and premiere recordings of works by Paul Mealor, Stephen Caracciolo, Bruce Neswick, Gary Davison, James D’Angelo, Michael McCarthy, and others. She has performed internationally in Austria, Italy, Scotland, England, and Australia.

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Charlotte earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance degree from Southern Methodist University, her Master of Music in Vocal Performance degree from the University of Miami in Florida, and her Master of Science in Psychology and Behaviorism from the University of Maine.

 

Charlotte maintains an active teaching studio and is amid her fourteenth year on the voice faculty at the National Cathedral School in Washington, DC. She is also a staff alto in the acclaimed 16-voice professional Choir of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, with which she performs approximately 300 works and 100 liturgies per year, as well as concerts, recordings, broadcasts, and other events. Charlotte toured Rome during the 2025 Jubilee Year, recently performed for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians National Convention and at the Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention, and will record with the Basilica Choir this fall. The Basilica Choir can be heard regulary on EWTN, SIRIUS XM Radio, WAOB Radio, Salt and Light Catholic Media, and has also been featured on NPR and Public Radio International.

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