Oscar Balle-Bowness grew up in Cairns where he began his music education playing the Double Bass and studying Classical Voice – this passion for music led him to study a Bachelor of Music (Performance) at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he was the recipient of the Patricia Lucas Memorial Scholarship.

 

Oscar has performed operatic roles including Normanno in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Goro in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Sailor in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Monostatos and The First Armed Man in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Mr. Upfold (The Mayor) in Britten's Albert Herring, and Bastien in Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne.

 

His concert performances include tenor soloist in Stainer's Crucifixion, Handel's L'allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, and Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël, as well as soloist in The Willoughby Symphony's Last Night of the Proms Concert.

 

Oscar has worked as the Musical Director for a production of Grease at the Seymour Centre and Meet Me In St. Louis in the New Theatre. In 2022, he was the recipient of the Susan Doyle Scholarship to support his vocal studies as a Pacific Opera Young Artist.

 

Oscar maintains a busy private voice studio and recently completed a Master of Teaching (Music) at the University of New South Wales.