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Charles started playing the piano at the age of six and began improvising and composing eight years later. Shy at playing in front of other people it was not until his mid-twenties that people began to gain access to his music - he wrote the scores for two musicals performed at the school in Kent where he was teaching at the time, as well as writing carols for the school choir.

Charles recorded his first CD album of solo piano compositions in 1991 and he began to realise from the feedback that his music was somehow powerful and touching people’s hearts. With his growing faith, and with various jobs and interests outside music (including work with homeless people in his home towns of Fareham and Gosport), Charles felt a calling to play and minister to ’the man in the street’.

Meeting fellow ACG member John Daniels in 2000 was a huge turning-point. Since that meeting they have collaborated on five CD recordings, with John adding his orchestral arrangements to Charles’ piano tracks. Their latest work, A Time for all Things, released in April 2010, is a collection of their own compositions, hymns, worship songs and well-known ballads.

Their music is regularly played on Radio 2’s Good Morning Sunday with Aled Jones.

Charles gives concert evenings and lunchtime recitals in churches, cathedrals and other venues, as well as ministering to the public at large at various craft shows around the country.

While no longer taking an active role within the ACG Charles has always been aware of, and hugely valued, the support that the organisation has offered. He is particularly grateful for the prayerful support he has been given over difficult periods in the past. Charles remembers that it was his membership of the ACG that brought him and John together, with John’s opening words being "I see you are an ACG member too!".

For more about Charles’s work and his concert schedule please visit: www.charlestimberlake.co.uk

 

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