Charles Roberts is currently a second year Bachelor of Music in Performance student of John O’Conor and recipient of The Wendy Hannam Scholarship at The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. Originally from Winchester, Virginia, Roberts was accepted into Shenandoah Conservatory at age fourteen, where he studied with Ieva Jokubaviciute and O’Conor. Before graduating high school, Roberts had completed over thirty credits worth of music courses and had collaborated in dozens of juries and recitals with university faculty and student instrumentalists. 

Roberts was also the pianist with Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra from 2017 to 2021 and was soloist at age fourteen with the ensemble at the Middleburg Film Festival in Virginia. Currently, he has performed multiple times as pianist with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in Toronto.

In the summer of 2019, Roberts was a semi-finalist in the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition at Brevard Summer Music Festival, which he attended for two consecutive summers. Roberts was invited to perform with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra on their tour in Chile, South America, in May 2020. In October 2020, he performed George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Shenandoah Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble at the Inside/Out: Arts Open House event on campus and has recently been invited for another performance at the World Saxophone Congress in Kurashiki, Japan, in summer 2022. 

Last summer, Roberts helped organize a virtual COVID-19 benefit recital by performing for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., to encourage diplomacy between China and the United States. He also performed in a service project for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra last November called One-to-One, which provides music to COVID-19 hospital patients in Dallas, Texas.

Roberts is a member of the R2DUO, a father-son/saxophone-piano duo with Timothy Roberts, performing concerts and recitals from all across the United States to Paris, Strasbourg and Amsterdam. Roberts’ sEuropean premiere was at age fourteen in Paris as part of the R2DUO in 2017.