About

Consort Encore provides bespoke, high-end classical music for events of any type or size. With an extensive roster of world-class, professional musicians, Consort Encore is proud to offer the country's industry-leading artists of classical music performance.

Consort Encore was co-founded by professional musicians, Charlotte Marino and Alexander Hume, both of whom have been active in the classical music industry throughout the UK for over 20 years combined. Their passions for sharing live, classical music have brought them to collectively arrange performances for people and events who may, otherwise, find classical music difficult or inaccessible to organise. Together, Alex and Charlotte have immensely enjoyed working with a plethora of varied events to bring live classical music to everyone's lives, and especially championing the beauty and power of classical music in all its forms to elevate spaces and memories for special occasions.

Charlotte Marino

Artistic Director

Charlotte has worked in the classical music industry since studying her Masters in Business Management from Cranfield University and Bachelors in Music from Royal Holloway, University of London. Charlotte worked for several years at the world-renowned classical music agency, HarrisonParrott, where she managed the careers and tours of the world's most iconic classical solo musicians and conductors. She took up placement for six years at St Martin-in-the-Fields, where she managed over 400 concerts per year in the iconic venue. Since then, Charlotte works around the country at concert halls and with orchestras, choirs, festivals and private clients, managing with ensembles such as the Monteverdi Choir, London Contemporary Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Pete Tong's Essential Orchestra.

Charlotte holds a Diploma of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in Clarinet Performance and an Associate Diploma of Trinity College London in Saxophone Performance. She is a member of the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain and lectures around the UK to students on the industry of classical music and business.

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Alexander Hume

Musical Director

Alexander is a professional tenor, singing with world-renowned choirs and consorts in the UK and studying under prolific vocal coach Robert Dean. Alexander regularly enjoys singing with professional church choirs such as Westminster Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, with whom he recently appeared as a prominent soloist in Classic FM's Christmas Day broadcast service. Alexander performs around the world with leading choirs including Tenebrae, Philharmonia Voices, The Sixteen and Les Voix Animées, as well as recording television and film scores with London Voices and London Contemporary Orchestra. Alongside choral singing, recent solo performances include playing the role of the Evangelist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the English Baroque Choir and St John Passion with The Chiltern Camerata, and playing the role of ‘Rat’ in John Rutter’s The Wind in the Willows, with St Martin’s Voices at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Opera credits include the title tenor role in Britten’s Albert Herring and lead in the Rape of Lucretia with Aspect Opera.

Alexander directs chamber vocal group, Iscantores, as part of his role as Musical Director in classical choral performance for Consort Encore.