Roza Herwig (GSMD)
"With her sparkling, powerful personality Roza Herwig is dazzling on stage. She brings music in a way that stays with you: lively, moving, musical and creative.”
The versatile Dutch mezzo-soprano Roza Herwig (1996) sings, acts, presents, plays the violin and writes theatre texts. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree Classical Voice with great success at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in June 2021, Roza continued her vocal studies in the Artist Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Next to her classical singing lessons, Roza has followed a Minor in Jazz singing. Roza likes to take on creative challenges and gives colorful, innovative performances, combining different art disciplines. She developed herself as an actress in several acting classes and with director Floris Visser.
Roza won prizes in both the Regional and National Finals of the Princess Christina Competition, at the Britten Violin Competition and was nominated for the Talent Prize Overijssel. Recently she won the Kanjerprijs de Leest.
In addition to singing as a soloist with, among others, the North Netherlands Symphonic Orchestra, the East
Netherlands Symphonic Orchestra, Britten Youth String orchestra and the Nachrlicht Ensemble, Roza often
appears in concerts, recitals and performances, in which she sings, acts and plays the violin. She has performed at several festivals, such as the Grachtenfestival, Tête a Tête Festival and the O Festival and sang multiple times on Dutch radio ‘NPO Radio4’ and in the TV program ‘Podium Klassiek’. In January 2021 Roza sang and played the leading role in an opera production of Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in München (DE) and in 2022 Roza portrayed the role of Cherubino in a production of Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart at the National Liberal Club in London, which was received with great enthusiast.
In masterclasses and workshops, Roza has had the opportunity to learn from world-famous singers, pianists, conductors and directors, such as Margreet Honig, Emma Kirkby, Ann Murray, Susanna Eken, Claron Mcfadden, Ed Spanjaard, Mark Padmore, Linda Watson, Julia Bullock, Xenia Meijer, Charlotte Margiono and Gavriel Lipkind.
"My greatest passion is to combine music and theater. I do this in different ways and with various types of music, from classical to cabaret. I love to play with the text and to take on the character of the song or aria. My goal is to communicate both the music and the story to the audience. I want to take them to another world and let them fully understand what the music is about, even though I may sing in French, Swedish or any other language."
