Roger Tirazona

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Roger Tirazona trained in the Johann Strauss School of Music in Voice and Piano and has been involved in Maltese Music and performing arts since the age of 9. His childhood performances include the Maltese musicals “Bastilja”, “Taht Tliet Saltniet” and “Ali Baba” in the Iljieli Meditenrani Producations. With a developing Bartione timbre, Roger decided to take his singing to a different level where his performances involved Musicals, Concerts (both local and international) and Music festivals. Roger trained in a classical Vaccai Belcanto style which he has married with his Pop-style of music giving a contemporary crossover style of singing to his repertoire. He is fond of musical theatre, works from the classical age, pop-classical crossover and Russian traditional songs and romances.

Roger’s credits include Javert in Les Miserables in Concert, Adam in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Horton in Seussical – The Musical, Chauvelin in ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’, Pilate in ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, Lazar Wolf and Tevye in ‘Fiddler on The Roof’, Molokov and The Russian in ‘Chess’, Craven in ‘The Secret Garden’, and recently played Professor Callahan in ‘Legally blonde’ and Sebastian in Sebastian in October 2006. Roger also performed in numerous musical theatre concerts in Malta and in Russia. Roger was also the vocal coach of ’13-The Musical’, the Andrew Lloys Webber tribute concert ‘Simply Webber’ and was also the musical director and vocal coach for ‘R&J The Musical’ in which he also arranged the mash up music of the entire show.

Roger has also performed and won different awards in festivals in Malta and internationally. He won the Konkors Kanzunetta Indipendenza 2004 and placed 3rd and 2nd in the Malta Song For Europe as part of the pop-classical vocal group “Trilogy”. Roger also won the Grand Prix of the Dicovery Pop Singer contest in 2006 and was awarded best performer in the New Asian Singer Contest in Beijing in 2010. Roger was also awarded a performer’s award in Naples, Italy in 2010. Trilogy was also further opportunity for international concerts which included concerts in Italy and in Tunisia. Solo concerts given by Roger included venues in Malta, Russia, Italy, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Lithuania etc. Roger’s singing versatility has also attracted attention when he was invited to perform in the CIOFF International folk Music Festival in Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria.

Roger is not only a performing artist and singer, but is also a composer and arranger. He recently composed theme music for a national Television show called “Lietuvos Garbe” (Honour of Lithuania) where the Lithuanian president was present for awards. He also arranged the music of the winner song of the Lithuanian national music competition called “Vilniaus Bokstai”. Both required Roger to cooperate with some of Lithuania’s best musical talent. Recently he has been working with Nadia Vella on the release of her new single called [[“Forbidden Love”[[ which is available on iTunes.

Roger Tirazona is an established Maltese Performing Artist, well known for his roles in leading musical theatre productions and his participation in song festivals, particularly in the Maltese Eurovision selections and in a wide variety of International shows and appearances. Roger is also a composer, arranger and music producer and is also credited as musical director and Vocal coach. He is also a PSHE teacher with the Malta Education Division. Roger is also a committee member of the Malta Humanist Association and is actively involved on the social media promoting Secular values and ethics.