She has such a glorious bloom on her soprano voice that you’d think she could simply sing open the gates of heaven. Rich, luxurious, blissful.. she sang with total conviction and radiant beauty throughout - The Times
This season Louise makes her US operatic debut as Micaela in Carmen at San Francisco Opera and role debuts as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) at the Vienna State Opera and Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Louise returns to Bayerische Staatsoper for Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) and to Wiener Staatsoper for Fiordiligi (Cosi fan Tutte) and tours Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch with Mauro Peter and Joseph Middleton at Bliss International Song Series Cambridge, Leeds Lieder at Opera North, Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Oper Frankfurt and Life Victoria Barcelona.
Louise will also perform Strauss Songs in Helsinki, Haydn’s Creation in Lisbon, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in Venice and Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) at the Barbican and Carnegie Hall with English Concert.
Other future engagements include returns to Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and debuts at The Metropolitan Opera, Berlin Staatsoper and Dutch National Opera.
Recent engagements include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro) at Wiener Staatsoper, Bayeriche Staatsoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Oper Frankfurt and English National Opera, Fiordiligi (Cosi fan Tutte) at Bayerische Staatsoper, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) at Wiener Staatsoper, Glyndebourne, Oper Frankfurt and Welsh National Opera, Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) at Theater an der Wien, Oper Frankfurt and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Cordelia in King Lear at The Grange Festival, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) at Royal Opera House, Teatro Real Madrid and Glyndebourne, Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) and Marzelline (Fidelio) at Bayerische Staatsoper, title role in La Calisto with Ivor Bolton at Teatro Real Madrid, Musetta (La Boheme) at ENO, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) with Garsington Opera and Oper Frankfurt, Gilda (Rigoletto), Vixen Sharp Ears (Cunning Little Vixen), with Oper Frankfurt.
Concert highlights include Mahler 2 with Sir Simon Rattle and London Symphony orchestra at the BBC Proms, The Messiah at the New York Philharmonic and Musikverein Vienna, Szenen aus Goethes Faust and Canteloube Chants d'Auvergne with The Concertgebouw and BRSO, the title role in Semele with John Eliot Gardiner at Teatro alla Scala Milan, Philharmonie de Paris and Palau de la Música, Barcelona, Beethoven 9 with Tokyo Philharmonic, Mozart arias with Daniel Harding and Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Salzburg Mozartwoche, and recitals at Wigmore Hall, Graz Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Foundation Privada Victoria de Los Angeles, Barcelona and BBC Proms with Joseph Middleton, Gary Matthewman and James Bailieu.
Louise has widely recorded, including Theodora with Arcangelo and Alpha Classics; Chère Nuit, a selection of French songs with Joseph Middleton and Chandos Records; Strauss Brentano Lieder with Robin Ticciati and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester; Semele on both CD and DVD with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists; Through Life and Love, a programme of Strauss Songs with pianist Joseph Middleton for Orchid Classics; Lines Written during a Sleepless Night: The Russian Connection also with Joseph Middleton for Chandos.
Other recent highlights include title role in Theodora with Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen at the BBC Proms and Vienna Konzerthaus , Messiah with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester at the Berlin Philharmonie with Robin Ticciati in performances staged by Frederick Wake-Walker, Jessie in Turnage’s The Silver Tassie with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth, Mozart Arias in Salzburg and Hamburg with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Robin Ticciati.
Louise is a passionate recitalist and has performed in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House, Schwarzenberg, Graz Musikverein, Oper Frankfurt, Musikverein Wien, International Song Festival Zeis, Juan March Foundation Madrid, Life Victoria Barcelona, Purcell Room Southbank Centre, BBC Proms at the Cadogan Hall, Holywell Music Room Oxford and Queen's Hall Edinburgh with pianists Joseph Middleton, Gary Matthewman, James Baillieu and Roger Vignoles.
Louise won the inaugural British Young Soloists' Competition at the Wigmore Hall in 2015, the 2014 Glyndebourne Festival Opera John Christie Award and the 2013 Glyndebourne on Tour Donald Albert Anderson Award. Also in 2013, Louise won second prize in Kathleen Ferrier Award and an INDEPENDENT OPERA fellowship and became a Classical Opera Associate Artist. Other prizes include first prize and a Miriam Licette Award in the 2012 Maggie Teyte French Song Competition, and numerous prizes at the Royal College of Music including the 2013 Tagore Gold Medal awarded every year to two graduating students for outstanding representation of the RCM. Louise is a 2013 Samling Scholar and a Britten-Pears young artist almuni.
Louise was born in London into a family of musicians and graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Edinburgh in 2010 where she studied singing with Patricia MacMahon. The same year she joined the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2013 from the International Opera School as the inaugural Kiri Te Kanawa scholar. She continues to study with Dinah Harris.