Louisa is currently working as a research associate at King's College, University of London, on “Dissemination, ownership and reading of music in early modern Europe”, originally funded by the European Research Council (now by the UKRI) - Principal Investigator: Elisabeth Giselbrecht. Louisa’s main area of interest is the Officina Plantininana and the European Market for Printed Music (1550-1650) and she currently has an honorary post as music advisor to the World Heritage listed Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Louisa also holds roles as the Classical Music Lead for the Alton Arts Festival, and as music program director at Chawton House. Louisa also regularly gives concerts as a singer and recorder-player, as soloist and ensemble member.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Polyphonic Music at the Officina Plantiniana: Commissioning, production, format and sales through Christopher Plantin and his heirs (1550-1650).
• Tracing the sales and final user of music sold by the Officina Plantiniana through the Frankfurt book fair, to include music published or represented by the Officina Plantiniana.
• Creating digital platforms for accessibility to original 16th-century printed music including images of the original, transcriptions and modern editions of the works, midi and live recordings available as audio files and the creation of metadata to be available via online library databases.
• Music printing and manuscript cultures.
• The use of the recorder in the late Baroque.

Selected publications

In preparation:

• 'The Officina Plantiniana as agent for Pierre Phalèse', Special Issue of De Gulden Passer, Circulation of music in the early modern period, Spring 2026.
• ‘The re-surfacing of a unique long-lost Lassus partbook: Cantionum sacrarum flosculi totius Anni tempori accomodati V. VI. VII. Et VIII. Vocum (Antwerp: Petrus (II) Phalesius, 1607)’.

Submitted:

• ‘Transforming the Object: Andrzej Chylinski’s Canones XVI’, Journal of the Alamire Foundation: Spring 2026.

Published:

• 'The Officina Plantiniana and the European market for printed music (1579-1600)' in Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and Grantley McDonald (eds.), Early Printed Music and Material Culture in Central and Western Europe. London: Routledge, 2021: 280-302
• 'Henri du Tour's Grande Musicque: a typeface for Plantin's polyphonic choirbook music publications.' in Vincenzo Borghetti and Tim Shephard (eds.), The Museum of Renaissance Music: A History in 100 Exhibits. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022