Louis Mander is a British composer, trained at The Royal College of Music in London and Birmingham University. His music is internationally performed and includes a prolific output of chamber opera, vocal music, chamber music, concerti, and music for film.

He has collaborated with numerous writers and librettists including the actor & writer Stephen Fry, with whom he created the chamber opera The Life to Come, an adaptation of EM Forster’s exotic gay novella which was premiered during Oslo Operafestival at the Oslo Opera House in Oslo 2017.

He has most recently collaborated with the British poet Pam Ayres on a new musical based on J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Singers and musicians alike are passionately engaged with Mander’s music and include notable international performers such as baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside who premiered his song cycle A Rondel of Gloucestershire in recital. He has recently been collaborating with writer and national treasure Gyles Brandreth on a new revue show showcasing Mander’s music for the stage, including his operetta with Hinge & Bracket. 

In January 2023 Louis Mander started work on a new chamber opera based on Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel of 1931, The Waves. His collaboration with author and librettist Tamsin Treverton Jones yielded a completed score in May 2024; after which followed a preview at Hawkwood, Gloucestershire, directed by Einar Bjorge.