Britt Hewitt is a New York City based soprano and composer. A devoted experimentalist, she can often be found working with composers on new works, writing and producing music of her own, and teaching a small number of students in voice and writing. Hewitt holds a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School, is a staff singer in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church Choir, and is a member of the New York Songwriters Circle. For upcoming events, visit the Events tab. For Hewitt's resume, please submit a request via the Contact form on the home page.

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OPERA AND CONCERT PERFORMANCE

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Hewitt has worked with virtual and in-person companies and projects to develop new works across the world, including The American Opera Project, Opera Harmony, National Sawdust, The Stone, BeComEnsemble, Artpark, and Experiments in Opera. For the latter, she created the title role in Everything for Dawn, which premiered on All Arts in October 2022. Hewitt was afforded other opportunities in venues such as National Sawdust, Le Château de Versailles, and Holland Park. In the summers of 2020 and 2021, she studied at Blue Hill, Maine's historic Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and was the first vocalist to do so. She performed the role of Marina in Katie: The Strongest of the Strong under the direction of Mary Birnbaum with Opera Saratoga. In 2024, she premiered five works and then performed on tour with the Albany Symphony alongside Devony Smith. Hewitt also performed the role of Pamina in the Little Orchestra Society's The Magic Flute. She performed the title role in Matthew Aucoin's Eurydice with Opera Grand Rapids, under the baton of Tyson Deaton. She will premiere Lisa Bielawa's La Ballonniste in the title role, which is in progress, and a recipient of a grant from the NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music, and Theatre. 

 

ORIGINAL WORK

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In 2018, Hewitt joined the New York Songwriters Circle, performed her first showcase at The Bitter End and won second place in the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment My NYC Song Contest.  Hewitt wrote the libretto for Mischief (or Rathattan) in Experiments in Opera's evening of short operas, Five Ways to Die. She was commissioned by The Peace Studio to poetically translate, produce, and record an original song with Corsican artist Petru Canon. The resulting work, Dì Mi L'Amore, can be heard during the ending credits of Conversations that #OfferPeace with world leaders and renowned artists in collaboration with NowThis and PBS All Arts. For her vocal contributions to work in progress Faces of God. she was mentioned in Vogue Italy.​ Hewitt released her debut self-produced EP, Unfastened, in June 2021. She held her first concert at  The Owl in 2024. 

Hewitt composed music for Juilliard Drama Short Film Old Times, directed by Monica Raymund, which premiered at Film at Lincoln Center and won awards at the Soho International Film Festival in 2023. Dreamcrossed, another Juilliard Drama short film featuring her scoring, with a screenplay by Noah Haidle and directed by Zoey Martinson, premiered in May at Film at Lincoln Center. The Italian short film, Transumanza, will release in 2025 and feature her compositions.

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TRAINING

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Hewitt began her musical journey in Jacksonville, Florida, attending LaVilla Middle School of the Arts, where she studied music theory, classical and jazz styles, and musical theater. Her final year at LaVilla marked her first performance in opera, when the school put together a pastiche Vivaldi "opera" for the Metropolitan Opera's education team. After a year studying choral music and musical theatre at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Hewitt transferred into Dallas, Texas' Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, where she continued her studies in choral music, opera, and jazz. There, she performed numerous roles, including Mother in Hansel and Gretel, Pamina in The Magic Flute, Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Chrissy in the musical Hair. She was also awarded an internship with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with whom she worked on developing educational programs. At seventeen, Hewitt became an official contestant for NBC's The Voice, though the teams filled up before her audition was scheduled to take place. She then graduated from Booker T. a recipient of one of two administered Principal's Awards.

 

Hewitt studied at Juilliard under the tutelage of the late Sanford Sylvan, and of William Burden. During her time there, she performed roles including Miles in The Turn of the Screw, the Spirit in the French, English, and American tour of Dido and Aeneas, Blanche de la Force in a devised work entitled There's Blood Between Us, based on Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Mistress Quickly in a devised work based on Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor. She also worked with student composers to develop new works, performed in multiple new music centric recitals, and started her formal music production education and work in the school's Center for Innovation in the Arts. She was a Gluck Fellow, for which she performed at dozens of care centers and hospitals across all New York City boroughs. Her culminating senior recital, WOMAN, featured work by female composers from the 20th & 21st centuries, including herself. To this day, she frequently returns to Juilliard to workshop and perform student compositions, innovated new works with the Center for Innovation in the Arts, and perform in recitals and concerts. 

 

When she isn't working, Hewitt can be found cooking, maintaining her Duolingo streak, or rewatching Fleabag.