Shane Lowrencev

Bass-Baritone

Shane Lowrencev was born in Melbourne and graduated from the Melba Memorial Conservatorium with a Bachelor of Music.  He furthered his studies at The Australian National Academy of Music and at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Whilst an undergraduate at the Melba, Shane received the Robert Salzer Scholarship Award for Operatic Potential as well as a Victoria University Scholarship. In 2008, he won the Australian Singing Competition’s Opera Awards, including the Youth Music Foundation of Australia Inc Award.

Shane has worked extensively with Opera Australia. His many roles for the national company include – title roles in Don Quichotte, Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Baron Scarpia in Tosca, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Escamillo in Carmen, Schaunard in La bohème, principal bass roles in Brett Dean’s Bliss, Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Capellio in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Ferrando in Il trovatore, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Melisso in Alcina, Lodovico in Otello, Nourabad in The Pearlfishers and Prince Selim in Il turco in Italia; he also covered Wotan/The Wanderer in Der Ring des Nibelungen (2013, 2016, 2023). In 2024, he starred in OA’s productions La traviata and La bohème; in 2025, he returns in Traviata and Bohème and sings The King in Cinderella.

Shane’s other operatic work includes Colline in La bohème for West Australian Opera, Hunding in Die Walküre for Adelaide Symphony and Hans Sachs in Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for State Opera South Australia.

Shane Lowrencev has established an exceptional career as one of Australia’s most highly- regarded concert soloists – appearing with the Melbourne, Tasmanian and West Australian Symphony Orchestras. His more notable credits include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Berlioz’s La damnation de Faust and L’enfance du Christ, Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, Messiah and La resurrezione; Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Mozart’s Requiem, Mass in C minor, Coronation Mass and Missa Brevis; Bach’s B Minor Mass, Sleepers Wake Cantata No.140, St John Passion, Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew Passion; Haydn’s Creation; and Schubert’s Missa Brevis.