Charlie is a multi-instrumentalist musician, film & tv composer and songwriter from coastal, rural East Lothian in Scotland. His emotive music often combines his finger picked and bowed folk instruments with minimal electronica and melodic orchestration, and is played from the heart.

His recent film and tv scores include the Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman adventure series ‘Long Way Home’ (Apple TV), Oscars 2024 short film contender 'Holy Cowboys' & RTS winning ‘The Kingdom: The World's Most Powerful Prince' (BBC).

His score for feature doc 'Scheme Birds' - described by filmmaker/producer Lena Dunham as “one of the most profoundly skilful, empathetic and moving films of the year” - helped to earn the film two wins at the Tribeca Film Festival. (Best Feature Doc and Best New Director)

Other composer credits include the BAFTA-winning feature Killing Escobar and his solo music has been placed in many worldwide productions such as hit UK show Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing, Yellowstone, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Leonardo DiCaprio produced docudrama Theodore Roosevelt and HBO comedy Miracle Workers starring Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe.

After a period as a touring musician in bands and collectives, Charlie began his soundtrack career composing for media with early work for the BBC’s natural history unit. Some early highlights include working with legendary journalist Jon Snow on special reports for Dispatches covering the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and scoring the RTS winning series presented by the late George Alagaih, The Future of Food .

Alongside his media career, Charlie worked extensively in community music and arts projects funded by Creative Scotland whilst exploring and developing his own music. His solo releases include Memories of America - described by journalist and author Chitra Ramaswamy as “beautiful music…sparse, wide-screen Americana evoking the shimmer and heat of flat lands bisected by long straight roads vibe…” More recently Charlie released his folktronica and spiritual jazz influenced EP Jumping Off Point.

His latest soundtrack work - Long Way Home - Original Apple TV+ Series Soundtrack (Platoon/ Apple Music) - is the result of initial improvised studio recordings to picture - on fretted instruments, piano/ rhodes piano & drums - followed by additional recording sessions with some of Scotland’s most talented folk artists and session players. More details here