Louise graduated with First Class Honours from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and with a Distinction for her Masters at the Royal College of Music. She also has an Artist Diploma as part of the RCM’s International Opera School. She is an alumnus of the Premiere Opera Training Programme in Banff, Canada, British Youth Opera, London Song Festival, a Samling Young Artist, and an Alvarez Young Artist for Garsington Opera 2018, 2019 and 2021.

 

With the Royal College of Music International Opera School, Louise played the roles of Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the title role in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Serpetta, La Finta Giardiniera (Mozart), Adolfo, Faramondo (Handel) and Dew Fairy, Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdink).  She has also performed Musetta in La Bohème, Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw, a repeat of the role of Tirésias, all with Euphonia Opera for Rye Arts Festival, Juliet in Gounod's Romeo and Juliet with Opera at Bearwood, and, in association with Tête à Tête, Louise worked with Bill Bankes-Jones creating the role of Grace in Algirdas Kraunaitis' opera The Two Sisters in RCM's Crime and Punishment.

 

Louise has performed Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music at Buckingham Palace, conducted by John Wilson with the RCM Symphony Orchestra. With choral societies all over the country, Louise has performed Orff's Carmina Burana, Saint Saëns' Oratorio de Noël, Haydn’s Creation, Missa Cellensis and Nelson Mass, Handel's Messiah, Salve Regina and Alexander's Feast, Rossini’s Messe Solennelle, Bach's Magnificat, Vivaldi's Gloria and Mozart's Requiem and Mass in C Minor.  She was also a keen member of TLCMD’s Early Music Vocal Ensemble and has performed at the Handel Festival. Other performances include Mendelssohn's Elijah at St John's Smith Square in the semi-chorus, conducted by Edward Gardner, and she has appeared as a guest soloist with the Trinity Laban String Ensemble singing Britten's Les Illuminations. Most recently Louise has been part of Wigmore Hall’s Academy of French song: The French Song Exchange, in partnership with the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Dame Felicity Lott and Francois la Roux. She made her solo recital debut at Wigmore Hall in October 2022.

 

Louise is also a singing teacher at Notre Dame School in Cobham and at Watford Grammar School for Girls. In her spare time, Louise loves sewing, cycling, yoga, and is kept happy with good food and the presence of a dog!