Biography
Choral Music
With a love for choral music, Rebecca has been singing in choirs for over 24 years. Since joining her church choir in 1998, Rebecca has sung with Pacific Baptist College's traveling ministry team for 6 years, the Golden West College Choirs for three years, and the Cypress College Masterworks Chorale for three years. Rebecca was part of the Southern California Master Chorale in 2011 and sang with the Starlight Carolers from 2012 to 2018. The Starlight Carolers is a non-profit Christmas Caroling team that raises funds for the production of concerts for the Friends of Choral Music. You may read about the Friends of Choral Music organization on their website. Rebecca joined the Meritage Vocal Arts Ensemble, based in Anaheim, California, in 2016 and was a featured soloist from 2016 to 2017.
Musical Theater
Rebecca first got her feet wet in drama doing hair and makeup for her high school's production of Anne of Green Gables. She has played several roles in musicals, including Cozette in Les Miserables, Nancy in Oliver!, multiple roles in Oklahoma, Aunt March in Little Women, and Mrs. Wadsworth in Our Miss Brooks by Christopher Sergel.
Solo Singing
In the Navy Reserve, Rebecca sang the National Anthem for many retirement and change of command ceremonies. She sang the National Anthem and "Anchor's Aweigh" for the Navy Reserve's 100th birthday which was locally celebrated aboard the USS Iowa, and the National Anthem for Love Rides 29, 30, 31, and 32, the grand opening of the John Wayne Airport USO, the grand opening for the Goodwill of Orange County Tierney Center for Veteran Services, and for Veterans Day games such as the LA Galaxy and LA Lakers games.
Rebecca also sings for weddings, funerals, and other events on request. Visit the Contact page to book her for your event.
The Southern California Master Chorale
Under the direction of Dr. Sheridan Ball, the Southern California Master Chorale has toured Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Israel, England, Scotland, Ireland, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Russia. They have performed in New York's famed Carnegie Hall on three separate occasions and appeared at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the Hollywood Bowl, the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, sang a Mass at the Vatican in Rome (twice), and performed on Radio Vienna. Their Summer 2008 China Tour was centered in and around the city of Beijing concluding with a tour extension to Hong Kong.
The Southern California Master Chorale is a professional ensemble made up of the finest singers Dr. Ball has encountered in his 30 years as a teacher, performer and conductor in the Los Angeles / Orange County region. The chorus was originally founded as the Cypress Community Chorus in 1975 and was rechristened the Cypress Masterworks Chorale in 1981. In that capacity, the chorus composed of 75 to 130 singers (depending upon repertoire), has presented some of the world's finest choral-orchestral music to an ever-widening audience. Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, Pagliacci, Carmina Burana, the Bach B minor Mass, Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio, the Brahms Requiem, Poulenc Gloria, Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem, Beethoven Mass In C, Verdi Requiem, Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Benjamin Britten War Requiem - the list is extensive and encompasses a vast repertoire from the library of choral-orchestral music.
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