Louise Viner (née Louise Booker)- mezzo soprano
Louise graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with a first class BMus Hons degree. She has a CRB Enhanced Disclosure and many years experience working with children, having worked as a nanny for the last 3 years to support her singing career. Louise previously worked in a children's day nursery, prior to entering her training at the Royla Northern College of Music.
During her career, Louise has appeared at Opera Holland Park, singing the role of Rita the Rat in their production of Tobias Picker’s Fantastic Mr Fox and appearing in the chorus for their production’s of Donizetti Don Pasquale, Mascagni L’amico Fritz. Bizet Carmen and Debussy Pelleas et Melissande.
Louise has sung in concert across the UK, highlights of which include her solo appearance for Ian Venables Awake, awake, the world is young at Tewkesbury Abbey and Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer with the Derby Concert Orchestra.
Since July 2009, Louise has sung regularly with the Band of HM Royal Marines Collingwood, in Wiltshire, Northamptonshire and Hampshire. She has also appeared with the Royal Corps of Signals Band and the Royal Engineers Band.
Oratorio solo appearances have included Mozart Requiem and Vespers, Vivaldi Gloria, Haydn Nelson Mass and Harmoniemesse, Handel Dixit Dominus, Bach Cantata No.172, Handel Messiah and Handel Israel in Egypt. Louise has played the roles of Chloe in Laura Bowler Anything Money Can Buy at both RNCM and the Opera Tête à Tête festival, Pepik in Janáček The Cunning Little Vixen and the Police Constable in Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera (RNCM), Second boy in Mozart The Magic Flute (LFO) and Second Witch in Purcell Dido and Aeneas (MJUK). Louise’s chorus appearances include, Stravinsky The Rake’s Progress (BYO), Bernstein Candide (RNCM), Puccini Tosca (LFO), Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin and Puccini La Rondine (RNCM). Louise’s opera excerpt experience has been Octavian in Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier with the RNCM Concert Orchestra and in a staged excerpt performance, Carmen in Ardingly International Music School’s production of Bizet Carmen, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, The Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas, Arnalta in The Corontion of Poppea (RNCM). Her choral appearances include Edward Gregson Dance Forever the Dance at the Bridgewater Hall, Ravel Daphnis et Chloe and Debussy Sirens under Jac van Steen, Mozart Requiem at the Bridgewater hall under Sir Colin Davis and the supporting choir behind Paul Potts at the Royal Variety Show 2007.