guest performer
Rowan Witt
Rowan has worked with Opera Australia, with directors such as Neil Armfield and Stuart Maunder. His principal roles include Miles from Benjamin Britten’s Turn of The Screw and The Second Spirit in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. His OA chorus work includes The Moffat Oxenbould Gala, Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll and Tosca… twice.
Rowan was also a member of ‘Gondwana Voices’ and the ‘Sydney Children’s Choir’ for ten years. Performances included: a concert for the Dalai Lama; the Opening Ceremony of The Sydney Olympic games; the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge; several Huntington Estate Music Festivals; and a European tour.
Most recently Rowan has performed with Andrea Bocelli on the Sydney stop of his world tour, performed the role of Papageno in the National Youth Opera’s premiere production, The Magic Flute, was a principal artist in Canberra’s Opera By Candlelight, was a guest singer with The Song Company during the Stockhausen festival, performed the role of Gussie Fink-Nottle in the Sydney premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s By Jeeves, and toured NSW as a principal artist on David Miller’s 2009 Great Southern Tour.
As well as his stage work, Rowan has also worked in film and television. His credits include Oliver Twist in the television series The Escape of The Artful Dodger, Tony in Home and Away, a guest appearance on the new series of Underbelly, and numerous commercials. He was Spoon Boy in the film The Matrix, Frankie in Paul Fenech’s film Somewhere in the Darkness, Steven in the film Little Blue, and has just completed a role in the Tropfest short film, Thick as Thieves. In 2000 Rowan was short-listed for the role of Harry Potter in the successful series of feature films, and was the only actor to be flown from Australia to screen test for the role with four other boys.
Rowan is currently completing a Bachelor of Music Performance in Voice, at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music University under the tuition of Anke Höppner.
Concerts with Chronology Arts