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About Me

HERMINE LOUISE DU TOIT, DAUGHTER OF MUSICAL, ARTISTIC PARENTS, WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH AFRICA. ALL THROUGHOUT HER SCHOOL YEARS SHE STUDIED CLASSICAL PIANO AND VIOLIN, TAKING PART IN RECITALS AND CONCERTS WITH YOUTH ORCHESTRAS, AND ACTING AND SINGING IN THEATRE AND MUSICAL PLAYS. SHE TOURED THE COUNTRY AND EUROPE AFTER JOINING THE FREE STATE YOUTH CHOIR, AND WON MANY CULTURAL AWARDS.AT UNIVERSITY SHE STUDIED ACTING AND THEATRE ARTS, WHICH INCLUDED STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN AND POSTER ILLUSTRATIONS. CONTINUING HER MUSIC AND VOICE LESSONS WITH ITALIAN OPERA SINGER GUDRUN BARELLA, SHE PLAYED LEAD PARTS IN MUSICALS, SANG IN OPERAS AND WROTE THEATRE PLAYS, WINNING MORE AWARDS. AFTER FINISHING HER DEGREE, SHE WORKED AS A FREELANCE ACTRESS, SINGER AND MUSICIAN IN JOHANNESBURG.WINNING AN ATKV-SABC NATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION IN 1991 WAS THE KEY TO MOVING ABROAD. SINCE FINISHING HER DEGREE IN OPERA SOME YEARS AGO, THE ARTIST IS TEACHING VOICE LESSONS AT THE IONIAN CONSERVATORY. FOR SEVEN MONTHS EVERY YEAR SHE PERFORMS IN FRONT OF A COSMOPOLITAN AUDIENCE AND DURING THE WINTER SHE REGULARLY SINGS WITH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS.SINCE MAY 2007 SHE ALSO HAD THREE ART EXHIBITIONS, WITH HER PAINTINGS ALL DONE BY HAND AND WITH THEMES OF HER HOMELAND, SOUTH AFRICA. HER LAST EXHIBITION, FOR WHICH SHE COMPOSED 10 GREEK SONGS AND 14 PIANO PIECES TO ACCOMPANY HER DRAWINGS, TOOK PLACE AT THE MUNICIPAL GALLERY OF CORFU IN FEBRUARY 2008. HER NEXT EXHIBITIONS WILL TAKE PLACE DURING OR AFTER THE SUMMER IN CORFU AND ATHENS.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/1/2008
Band Members: H. Louise du Toit (musician, singer, composer, lyricwriter, painter)From April to the end of October I perform every night either as part of a duo or a trio, or with an 8-member orchestra. We perform music from all over the world in at least 10 different languages to a totally cosmopolitan audience.
Influences: Some of the beautiful voices and incredible composers I grew up with... Guiseppe di Stefano, Jussi Bjorling, Jan Kiepura, Zarah Leander, Nicolai Gedda, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renata Scotto, Saint-Saens, Renato Bruson, Victoria de los Angeles, Carlo Bergonzi, Alfredo Kraus, Franz Lehar, Ezio Pinza, Dagmar Schellenberger, Bach, Beethoven, Luciano Pavarotti, Emma Kirkby, Chopin, Joseph Schmidt, Titta Rufo, Mendelssohn, Tereza Berganza, Erik Satie, Jacqueline du Pre, Puccini, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Maria Callas, Luba Organosova, Tito Schipa, Renata Tebaldi, Von Weber, Mozart, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Elly Ameling, Renato Carusone, Meyerbeer, Renee Fleming, Handel, Diman Pantchev, Gluck, Massenet, Placido Domingo, Montserrat Caballe, Bizet, Cecilia Bartoli, Mirella Freni, Jose Carreras, Serrano, Brahms, Sorozabal, Catalani, Ursula Reichart, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Matteo Manuguerra, Mussorgsky, Marjana Lipovsek, Schubert, Schuman, Haydn, Charpentier, Korngold, Wolf-Ferrari, Maria Chiara, Sylvia Sass , Hugo Wolf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Luciana Serra, Ruggero Raimondi, Joan Sutherland, Ismael Pons Tena, Franco Corelli, Mario del Monaco,Rita Streich, Tchaikovsky, Margeret Price, Rimsky-Korsakov, Purcell,Gounod, Monteverdi, Sibelius and countless other unforgetable composers, musicians and singers!
Sounds Like: Me...these are all my own compositions & lyrics, my own arrangements, my own recordings
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None