Roza Herwig
"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, Roza finished her vocal studies with distinction in the Artist Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London in 2023. She continued her studies at Guildhall in the Artist Diploma. 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, next to her classical singing, Roza has followed a Minor in Jazz singing.
This talented young performer has not gone unnoticed. Roza won prizes in the National Finals of the Princess Christina Competition, at the Britten Violin Competition and was nominated for the Talent Prize Overijssel. Recently she won the Charters Surveyers Competition and in sang in the Semifinals of the prestigious International Vocal Competition in Den Bosch. In addition to singing as a soloist with, among others, the North Netherlands Symphonic Orchestra, the East Netherlands Symphonic Orchestra, the Bauhaus Band and the Nederlands Kamerorkest, with whom she made her debut in the Concertgebouw, Roza often appears in concerts, recitals and performances. She has performed in the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, the Barbican Centre, Vortex Jazz Club and at several festivals, such as the Tête a Tête Festival, Schiermonnikoog festival, O Festival and the Grachtenfestival. Roza 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 NLC in London, which was received with great enthusiast. In summer 2024 she will sing a role in an opera production from Holland Opera in The Netherlands.
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."
Roza is happiest high in the mountains and she loves Italian food!