Resume

In 1991 Rebecca graduated as an opera singer from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a Diploma in Operatic Arts (DOA). She worked and lived in London and Europe for 13 years as a professional opera singer performing 35 operatic roles, oratorios, concert work and BBC documentaries. She also recorded two CD’s in London’s elite Wigmore Hall. Rebecca returned to Australia in 2005 and completed her Masters of Arts in Music Therapy at Sydney’s UTS graduating in 2011 (MAMT).

She was invited to sing with the International Festival Chorus in Beijing as a guest soloist in Elgar’s ‘The Music Makers’, in 2009, ‘Messiah’ in 2010 and ‘The Dream of Gerontius’ in 2013. She has very recently taken part in several pilot studies in Speech Research at the Western Sydney University under the direction of the Professor in Psycholinguistics which explores the differences in tongue movement between singing and speech.

Rebecca combines her work as a Registered Music Therapist (RMT), running a private singing studio and tutoring singing with the Open Academy at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.