Louise Alder

Soprano Louise Alder was born in London and read music at Edinburgh University where she studied singing with Patricia MacMahon. She graduated a Bucher-Fraser scholar with First Class Honours in 2010 before joining the Royal College of Music where she studies with Janis Kelly on a full scholarship.

Whilst at RCM she has won first prize in both the Ted Moss & Bertha Taylor-Stach Lieder Competition and the Van Someren Godfery English Song Competition. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist and has been awarded an Ian Fleming Award and a Maidment Scholarship administered by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, a Dewar Arts Award, and scholarships from the Countess of Munster, AHRC, Hope Scott Trust and Michael Shea Bursary.

Louise has recently sung Musetta in OperaUpClose’s Olivier Award winning production of La Bohème, Lucia/Rape of Lucretia (British Youth Opera – cover), Poppea/Agrippina and Theodora/Theodora (Barber Opera). Other roles include Gretel/Hansel and Gretel, Vixen Sharp-Ears/The Cunning Little Vixen, Venus/Venus and Adonis and Zerlina/Don Giovanni. Solo concert performances include Carmina Burana (Philharmonia Chorus), DianaCacciatrice/Handel (London Handel Festival), Jauchzet Gott/Bach (Tilford Bach Society),The Red Cockatoo and Other Songs/Britten (Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, Aldeburgh Festival) and Creation/Haydn (St. Magnus Festival, Orkney).

Future engagements includeNurse 2/The Fairy Queen (English Touring Opera) and Les Illuminations/Britten with Budapest String Orchestra, Budapest.