I'm Louise and sing 1st soprano. I’m married to Chris and we have two daughters: Eva 8 and Lucy 5. When I’m not singing I work at Derby hospital on the neonatal intensive care unit.
I've been singing since I started school and was always in the school choir, I remember doing pyramid concerts at Burton town hall with the local junior and senior schools and singing my first solo Where is love’ when I was about 6. I was always involved with lots of music and drama at school, learning to play a few instruments: such as recorder, violin, clarinet, guitar to name a few but I was never very good at them so I carried on singing instead. I played a few leading roles in school plays such as Glinda the good witch in Wizard of Oz and the Pied Piper in Rats. It was when I was about 13 I started singing lessons with Anne Leatherland and took part in many of her concerts and joined her vocal folk group. I also took classical and musical theatre exams with her and got upto my grade 8. Once I started my nurse training, singing took a back step for a while but I missed it so much. I joined New Era musical theatre group run by Joyce Burton and started doing shows and musicals with her, I also joined the St Mary and Modwen church choir and more recently Friday Voices. I don’t remember the year I joined Rolleston Choral but it’s been a long time now (Editor Note: It was 2011). I was enticed by Rosemary and Stuart Taylor. My first concert was in my own church at St Mary and Modwen. I love singing with all the choir and they are like my extended family.
Louise