Baritone Oliver Heuzenroeder is in his first year of the Royal Academy Opera Studio (Royal Academy of Music), where he studies with Mark Wildman and Jonathan Papp. He completed his undergraduate studies with first-class honours at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and his Master’s degree with distinction at the Royal Academy of Music. His studies are generously supported by the Carr-Gregory Trust, the Help Musicians Sybil Tutton Opera Award, and the Josephine Baker Trust.

Oliver’s operatic roles include Dancaïre (Carmen), Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Sancho (Don Quichotte), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Marcello (La bohème), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), and Frédéric (Lakmé). He has recently worked with companies Opera Australia, British Youth Opera, and Opera Holland Park. This season he sings the role of Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in a new production directed by Paul Carr.

Equally passionate about song and concert repertoire, Oliver has appeared in recitals and masterclasses with the Academy’s Song Circle at Wigmore Hall and the Austrian Cultural Forum. His concert performances include bass soloist engagements in Mozart masses, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, and Handel’s Messiah. In 2026, he will make his European debut as the bass soloist in Bach’s St John Passion in the Netherlands. He has worked in masterclasses with Maestro Richard Bonynge, Sir Thomas Allen, Maestro Carlo Rizzi, Barbara Frittoli, Yvonne Kenny AM, Olaf Bär, and more.

Oliver is a former Melba Opera Trust Artist and an alum of the Georg Solti Accademia, where he has performed in concerts in Italy supported by Rolex. His awards include the Elizabeth Muir Memorial Prize, Bettine McCaughan Memorial Scholarship, and Joyce Campbell-Lloyd Scholarship. He was also awarded Second Place in the Australian Concerto and Vocal Prize and was a semi-finalist in the Sydney Opera Prize.