Born in Hertfordshire, Samling Scholar Louise Collett gained a BMus First Class Honours degree at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2006, followed by a Post Graduate Diploma in Concert Singing in 2007 and is now in the Alexander Gibson Opera School at the RSAMD on the Master of Music course. For the duration of this time, Louise has been under the tuition of Kathleen McKellar Ferguson.

Since commencing her degree at the RSAMD in 2002, Louise's successes include winner of the Jean Highgate Scholarship, finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers winner of the Governers' Recital Prize, winner of the Frank Spedding Lieder Prize, winner of the Margaret Dick Competition and second place in the Ye Cronies Opera Award.

She has appeared in the chorus of Handel's Alcina and Verdi's Falstaff. Roles include Arnalta L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi), Third Lady The Vanishing Bridegroom (Judith Weir), Older Woman Flight (Jonathan Dove), Florence Pike Albert Herring (Britten) and Olga Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) all with the RSAMD. Other roles include Lehrbube Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) and Mere Jeanne Les Dialogues des Carmelites (Poulenc) both in concert performance in the Edinburgh International Festival, 2006 and 2007 respectively. In summer 2007, Louise sang in the Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Germany appearing in Parsifal, Tannhaüser and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner).

Concert and Oratorio repertoire covers a wide spectrum for Louise, including Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Bach’s Wienachts Oratorium, St. John Passion and Magnificat, Berio’s Folksongs (performed with the Hebrides Ensemble at the RSAMD in January 2007), Duruflé’s Requiem, Schumann’s Frauenliebe und leben and Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb.

In 2008 she sang the role of La Prieure in Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmelites at the RSAMD and the role of Olga in Lehar’s Merry Widow with Scottish Opera Go Round.

Louise’s continuing studies are gratefully made possible due to the support of The Tillett Trust, The Musicians Benevolent Fund and The RSAMD Trust Fund