Rebecca Martin
Mezzo
Rebecca won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied French song with Robin Bowman and Ian Burnside, German Lieder with Rudolf Piernay, English Song with Michael Pilkington, and Italian Song with Tina Ruta. She graduated in 1990 in the highest class, and gained a diploma in the teaching of singing.
Rebecca was a winner of the Dorchester Young Musicians Platform (radio recital), and a finalist in the international Peter Wishart English Song Competition. She has been a member of the Ad Hoc BBC Singers and Covent Garden Opera extra chorus, and combines her performing career with work as a singing teacher, coaching pupils of all ages and abilities. Rebecca lived in Italy for five years and is a fluent Italian-speaker.
Listen to Rebecca singing Nannas Lied, by Kurt Weill
Recitals and Oratorio
Mass in C Minor, Mozart St James's, Piccadilly, LondonAn Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Radio City Hall, London
Requiem, Mozart Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
Arianna a Naxos, Haydn with City of Oxford Orchestra, Holywell Music Room, Oxford
'What's that Noise?' BBC Children's TV (guide to classical singing)
Elijah, Mendelssohn Oxford Town Hall
Messe Solenelle, Rossini Oxford Town Hall
Messiah, Handel Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Wide experience of oratorio work in venues throughout the UK.
Opera
Rebecca has performed as a soloist for Opera Anywhere and is a soloist and ensemble singer for Charity Opera, who stage concert opera productions such as An Evening at the Opera (Appleton Manor) and Christmas Classics (Institute of Directors, Ashmolean Museum). She recently appeared in the four-hand opera A Game of Chance at the Old Fire Station Theatre, Oxford, and has sung for several Oxford Opera Studio productions at the Holywell Music Room.As well as her work as a soloist and with MEZZOPIANO, Rebecca performs with Nia Williams and soprano Sarah Leatherbarrow in the trio terzina.
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