Background
Louwerse was born in Brisbane, Australia, and attended Ormiston College.
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Mirusia Louwerse
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She graduated in December 2006 from the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane obtaining a Bachelor of Music in Performance in Classical Voice.
Career
She performs as Mirusia and is seen by one online source as "The Unconventional People’s Star". Louwerse is a lyric soprano and has performed in such operas as Mozart"s The Magic Flute, Ravel"s L"enfant et les sortilèges and Britten"s Albert Herring. He listened to her voice on her website and phoned her straight away and two days later she was standing before him in his studio ready to sing.
She has been touring with Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu since 2007 as soprano soloist.
She is of Dutch descent and can speak Dutch fluently. In May 2008, André Rieu and Louwerse released an album entitled Waltzing Matilda in Australia which made it to the number one position on the Australian music charts and went platinum within ten days.
On Rieu"s Digital Video Disc I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (2009) she sings the title song "Ich hab" mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren", as well as "Zwei kleine Italiener", "In mir klingt ein Lied", and (with Carla Maffioletti and the Berlin Comedian Harmonists) "Adieu, mein kleiner Gardeoffizier". Her album Always & Forever was released in Australia on 8 October 2010, and went straight to #1 on the ARIA classical charts and #17 on the ARIA popular charts.
lieutenant was released in The Netherlands in December 2010 and reached #26 on the Dutch popular charts.
Her Digital Video Disc Always & Forever was released in March 2011 and stayed at the #1 position on the ARIA Digital Video Disc charts for 4 weeks. Louwerse is an ambassador for the Australian Children"s Music Foundation and believes strongly that if children are exposed to music or are involved in music, they will grow up to be better human beings. In 2010 and 2012, Louwerse participated in two concerts to raise funds for the ACMF, which raised more than $100,000 for music in schools in Australia.
In 2013, Mirusia performed with Andre Rieu at the Coronation Concert of the New King of The Netherlands King Willem Alexander.
In this same year, to celebrate Benjamin Britten"s 100th birthday, she performed under the baton of John Curro with the Queensland Youth Symphony Britten"s War Requiem in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Her latest releases have been a Civil Defense and Digital Video Disc entitled "Beautiful That Way" filmed live in Maastricht, and 2014 sees the release of her new album "My Favorite Things".
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