Born in 1990, Charly Mandon was unanimously admitted at the age of 16 to the Paris Conservatory in the harmony course of Jean-François Zygel. He also studied fugue with Thierry Escaich, analysis with Michaël Levinas and orchestration with Guillaume Connesson, then went on to conducting at the Brussels Royal Conservatory where he graduated from a Master's degree in June 2018 after conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège.
Charly dedicated his youngest years as a composer to write pieces for solo piano. His meeting in 2010 with Stephen Paulello, a revolutionary piano maker with his 102 keys pianos, opened him an exploration field from where emerged pieces like the Caprice (premiered in 2014 by Lucas Debargue and whose video was watched more than 350.000 times on YouTube), the Toccata (premiered in 2016 by Philippe Hattat at the Paris Philharmonie), the Prélude (premiered in 2017 by Guillaume Vincent), the Klavierstück (premiered in 2018 by Jérôme Ducros) or the Wutstück (premiered in 2023 by Lucas Debargue).
Noticed by Jérôme Pernoo who opens him the doors of the Chamber music Center of Paris (Salle Cortot) soon after its creation in 2015, Charly turns himself towards chamber music. Years after years, a series of more than fifteen concerts are dedicated to his works ; his Mouvement perpétuel is part of a performance "Le Bal masqué" and given 11 times on the Center's stage. Again, his Sonatine for violin and piano then his Triosatz for violin, cello, and piano, are premiered at the Center in respectively in 2017 and in 2021.
Charly Mandon with Jérôme Ducros after the premiere of the Klavierstück op. 15 at the la Roche-Posay Festival.
Charly is regularly programmed in various chamber music festivals in France and in Belgium and is composer in residence at the la Roche-Posay Festival for the 2018 edition. Almost his entire catalog of chamber music is given on this occasion. In 2022, his Trio is performed at the closing concert of the 30th Festival des Forêts by Lucas Debargue on the piano and the brothers David and Alexandre Castrobalbi on violin and cello. His second Trio "Waldtrio" is premiered by the same musicians in 2025, this time for the opening gala of the 33rd Festival des Forêts. After his Berceuse No.1 for cello and piano, premiered in 2018 by Jérôme Pernoo and Nicholas Angelich, Charly writes a second Berceuse in 2024, which is premiered by Aurélien Pascal and Alexandre Kantorow. A melody cycle for mezzo-soprano, various instruments and piano, commissionned by Rena and Victoria Shereshevskaïa, is being composed for a CD recording in 2027.
In recent years, Charly has devoted himself mainly to the symphonic repertoire. In 2021 he wrote a Concertino for piano and orchestra, premiered by
Jérôme Granjon and the Colonne Orchestra conducted by Ilan Sousa ; 2022 sees the creation of Le Marteau avec maître (The Hammer with a Master)
again by the Colonne Orchestra, this time with Marc Korovitch holding the baton. That same year, Mehdi Lougraïda premiered the orchestral version of his
Perpetual Movement in Caracas, at the head of the Simon Bolivar Orchestra. In 2023, his concerto for string quartet and symphonic orchestra is premiered by the Girard
Quartet, Débora Waldman and the National Avignon-Provence Orchestra. The concert is performed twice in Paris then at the Palace of the Popes in Avignon in December 2023.
In 2025, Charly's Prometheus Dance is performed by the Nice philharmonic orchestra, conducted by Lionel Bringuier, alongside four concerts at Nice Opera House.
Charly Mandon won the "Freshly composed" prize by the bank Crédit Agricole for his Sonatine; he has also been a laureate of the Safran Foundation since December 2019.
