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Louise has been a musician since she was small, learning piano from age 6 and singing in a Church choir from age 7. She studied Music and French at Reading University, specialising in performance. She studied conducting at the Conservatoire de Pau in the south of France during her year abroad, and returned to direct the Reading University Singers for two years. With them she organised and conducted around three concerts a year, with music ranging from early sacred to modern secular, and also visited Cathedrals to sing Evensong. Whilst at University she was also the organiser of the Lunchtime Concert Series which took place most weeks during term-time and the experience she gained then has been very useful in subsequent musical activities since.

Having graduated, Louise took the position of Organist and Choir Director at St John's Church in Crowthorne, and later moved to the same position at Christ Church, Reading where she spent five happy years with a lovely choir. Nowadays, she teaches piano both privately and at Queen Anne's School, Caversham and Shiplake College, where she also directs the Chamber Choir.

Over the last five years she has been delighted to watch Tamesis growing from a slightly mad-cap venture to a thriving and hugely fun chamber choir. Tamesis has turned out to have exactly the ethos and atmosphere that she imagined in the days when she was running around trying to publicise the 'new' chamber choir in the area and    she is extremely happy and proud to be part of it!
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