Louise Eekelaar 
 Soprano
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Twice winner of the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Early Music Competition in  2013 and 2011 with Virtuosa and Ensemble Tramontana, Louise is a professional singer based in London, specialising in early music and with extensive experience in all forms of solo and choral styles, from medieval to contemporary. Her performances have taken her to venues as diverse as the O2 Arena, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Purcell Room on Southbank, and the Royal Albert Hall. She also holds the post of Director of Music at Holy Trinity Church in Brook Green, London. 

Louise sings in many small ensembles as a consort singer and soloist, including The Ebor Singers with whom she still regularly performs. As well as singing (and occasionally playing) in the medieval and renaissance group Ensemble Tramontana, she also sings with Cappella Nova and the trio Virtuosa. She was a choral scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields and regularly sang with the St Martin's Voices there. Other solo engagements have included a series of Christmas Shows at the Musical Museum in Brentford singing a mixture of classical, jazz and musical theatre pieces in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and their Summertime in Paris show in June 2017. She will be back at the Museum in June 2019 for the 90th Birthday of the Museum's Wurlizer Organ. Recent engagements with Cappella Nova in 2018 have seen her perform at Stirling Castle and the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh performing the works of Robert Carver. She will be back performing with the group in October 2019.

She sang with the Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi during its European tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and its BBC4 and Radio 3 documentary and film of Vivaldi’s Gloria, filmed in the Pietà  in Venice, and was most recently featured on Radio 3 in a live concert broadcast in May 2015. Louise also performed the music of Hildegard von Bingen in recordings and a European tour with Sinfonye, directed by Stevie Wishart. In recent years she has sung in masterclasses given by Dame Emma Kirkby, Robert Hollingworth, Harry Bicket and Jessica Cash.

Other ensembles and choirs she has performed with include the Yorkshire Bach Choir, early music and folk trio Thre (which she co-founded), and baroque instrumental trio Diversimode.

She studied for a Masters in Early Music Performance at the University of York, under the supervision of Peter Seymour. She subsequently studied with Alison Wells and Timothy Travers-Brown at the
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she obtained her LTCL Diploma with Distinction, and currently studies with Marie Vassilou.
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