Meet Rebecca

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Vocal Teacher
Choral Director
Musical Director
Professional Singer
Credentials

Vocal Teacher

Rebecca has taught private voice lessons since 1995 when she was just a junior in college. With students ranging in age from 10 to infinity and beyond, Rebecca prepares singers for musical auditions as well as teaches singers who are simply wishing to learn more about their voice. Rebecca works with advanced, intermediate, and beginner singers. Her students have frequently been selected for All-State and regional honours choirs, successfully auditioned for high school and college-level select ensembles and community choirs, earned lead roles in local musical theatre productions, and joined college music and theatre programs. A skilled pianist as well as a highly trained singer, Rebecca brings to the studio a wealth of knowledge.







Choral Director

Rebecca has conducted choirs of all ages, taught musical theatre and vocal technique classes, music theory, and piano lessons. She has taught as an adjunct Professor of Music, instructing voice classes and music theory courses to undergraduate non-majors. Rebecca has worked with both inner-city and rural students, conducting groups as large as 175 singers.



Musical Director

Rebecca has been music director for a number of musical theatre productions both at the high school and community theatre levels. Her production credits include Lion King, Jr. (Bromfield), Guys and Dolls (Bromfield), Spamalot (Theatre at the Mount), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narragansett Regional High School), The Sound of Music (Narragansett Regional High School), Miss Nelson has a Field Day (TAM), Once Upon a Mattress (Lawrence High School), Bye, Bye Birdie (Lawrence High School), Godspell (Andover Community Theatre), The Wiz (ACT), the first Teen Idol at the Mount (TAM) competition as well as the first Idol at the Mount (TAM) competition. Rebecca has served as a vocalist and keyboard player in several churches, leading numerous church choirs and contemporary worship teams.







Professional Singer

Portraying roles such as Mother in “Ragtime,” Frasquita in "Carmen," and Mabel in "The Pirates of Penzance," critics have claimed Rebecca's voice as "magnificent" and relished about her "soaring vibrato," (Worcester Telegram and Gazette). Her concert and oratorio work has hailed her "so powerful yet so tender... one of the most reliable singers I have ever worked with," (Diane Cushing, director of the Greater Gardner Community Choir and the Nashua Symphony Chorus). Rebecca has performed with Greater Worcester Opera, New England Light Opera, Longwood Opera, Valley Light Opera, Greater Gardner Community Choir, The Cannon Theatre and Theatre at the Mount.

Rebecca has portrayed many musical theatre favourites on stage including Mother (“Ragtime”), The Baker’s Wife (“Into the Woods”), Fantine (“Les Miserables”), Amalia Balash (“She Loves Me”), Georgia Hendricks (“Curtains”), Violet (“9 to 5”) and Mrs. Potts (“Beauty and the Beast”). Oratorio highlights include Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, Saint-Saens' Christmas Oratorio and both Rutter's Requiem and Gloria.

Rebecca was an Alternate in the American Idol Opera Competition with the Connecticut Concert Opera in both 2011 and 2012 and received a DASH award nomination for her performance as Mother in Theatre at the Mount's production of "Ragtime" in 2017.



Credentials

  • Doctorate of Music Education, Liberty University (in progress)
  • Master of Music in music education, Boston University 2016
  • Bachelor of Music in music education, Gordon College 1996
  • Ontario College of Teachers Intermediate and Senior division licensure (OCT)
  • Professional Teaching License, Music 5-12, Massachusetts Department of Education
  • Member of National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)

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