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Rebecca Ryan

Rebecca came to international prominence when she gave the UK premiére of the newly rediscovered Handel’s Gloria at London’s Royal Academy of Music conducted by Nicholas McGegan, a performance repeated under the direction of Laurence Cummings at the London Handel Festival.

Born in New Zealand, Rebecca graduated with a Music Degree and won the New Zealand Performing Arts National Award for Singing before moving to London to study at the RAM. Rebecca’s operatic roles have included Blonde Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Opera Project) and Nannetta Falstaff (Iford Arts). Concert engagements have included Bach’s B minor Mass at Snape Maltings and the Tilford Bach Festival, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Bach’s Magnificat and The Creation (RTÉ Concert Orchestra), Messiah (Irish Baroque Orchestra), Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and A Child of Our Time at the Royal Festival Hall and Poulenc’s Stabat Mater and Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra).

Current engagements include Mme Silberklang Der Schauspieldirektor (Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra), Bach’s Magnificat and Messiah (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra). Her recordings include Handel’s Silete venti for Naxos and The Mozart Sessions for RTÉ TV.