Rebecca studied at The Queen’s College, Oxford, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and at
the Royal Northern College of Music.
Recent performances include Poulenc’s La voix humaine at the Purcell Room, Judith Weir's The Consolations of Scholarship at the Sage Gateshead, King Harald's Saga at the Wigmore Hall and the 2011 season with Buxton Festival Chorus performing in Handel's Saul, Donizetti's Maria di Rohan and Thomas' Mignon.
Roles include Elle (La voix humaine, Purcell Room), Cis (Albert Herring, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte, Montepulciano), Venus (The Judgement of Paris, New Chamber Opera), Galatea (Acis and Galatea,Worcester Opera), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro, RNCM Opera Scenes) and the Governess (The Turn of the Screw, RNCM Opera Scenes).
In 2010 she gave the world premiere of Bernard Focroulle's Rilke Lieder at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte, Montepulciano, Italy, giving a further solo recital at the same festival.
She has worked with the ensembles Ex Cathedra, Oxford Camerata, Howard Goodall’s Enchanted Voices, Manchester Baroque and The Choir of the Tower of London, touring with the latter to South Africa in January 2010. Oratorio performances include The Messiah (Ripon Cathedral) St John Passion (Manchester Cathedral), Poulenc’s Gloria (Chesterfield Parish Church), Monterverdi Vespers (St James Piccadilly) and Mozart’s Coronation Mass (Manchester Cathedral)
Future solo performances include engagements with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Ensemble 10/10 in Liverpool and at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, as well as appearances at Manchester, Ripon and Chester Cathedrals.
In 2008 Rebecca won the Oxford Lieder Festival Scholarship to support her studies whilst at music college. In 2010 she was awarded the Contemporary Music Performance Prize and the Kate Snape Scholarship by the RNCM.