Recently a recipient of a grant from the Culture Association of Finland, Charlie spent August 2010 in residence at the ARTELES Foundation developing new-media work. So far this year, his series of pieces Bíldudalur/Silence was exhibited at Gallerie Dynjandi in Bíldudalur, Iceland; his film Auto Video: The Cedar screened at the Larkhall Festival in Bath; and his sound work A Capsule Held Static was performed as part of Sweden's Dragonfly Festival of ambient music.
He has held faculty positions in the USA at Northwestern University and Columbia College Chicago's MFA program in Music Composition for the Screen. As a pianist, he has played in chamber/pop intersection group Mira Mira...
...as well as in Argentine tango electronic-fusion quartet Truco.
Performances include John Corigliano's Concerto For Piano and Orchestra with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra as winner of that school's concerto competition...
...and the 2nd International Shostakovich Piano Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was awarded a jury prize for performance of new music.