Charlie Todd

Charlie Todd is a composer and engineer based in New York City telling stories through the intersection of classical and electronic music. He is passionate about music’s ability to evoke deep and specific feelings and ideas, whether paired with visual media or performed independently, on the scale of a synth-backed orchestra or a single piano.

Currently working as a software engineer on the music team at Instagram, music has been a constant in Charlie’s life from childhood through present day - from learning the violin and arranging Nintendo soundtracks as a kid, to performing with community ensembles and composing original works as an adult. These compositions span standalone pieces for string quartet and solo piano, short film and video game music for orchestra and electronic instruments, as well as pop-forward pure electronic tracks. His influences similarly range from Tchaikovsky and Debussy to John Williams, Koji Kondo, Jacob Collier, Anomalie, and Porter Robinson.

Charlie holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Music from Duke University, where he studied composition with John Supko and violin with Eric Pritchard. As a violinist, he is a member of the Atlantic Quartet, and has performed in the Greenwich Village Orchestra, San Francisco Civic Symphony, Duke Symphony Orchestra, masterclasses with James Ehnes and Anne Akiko Meyers, and various youth ensembles in his home state of Virginia.