Rebecca Hardwick - Soprano
Rebecca read Music at the University of York, before studying at the Royal College of Music. She then completed the Opera Works course at English National Opera, and was an Apprentice with the Monteverdi Choir.
Operatic highlights include Isabella in L'inganno Felice (Rossini, Wexford Festival Opera) Belinda (cover) in Dido’s Ghost (Dunedin Consort), First Bridesmaid in Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Victorian in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Will Todd, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House), and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. She performed in the ensemble for the world premiere of Sciarrino's 'Venere e Adone' at Staatsoper Hamburg, and a number of productions with Bergen National Opera, including Wagner's 'Parsifal'. Her recent concert appearances include Dyson's 'Quo Vadis' at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford Cathedral, Haydn's 'Creation' in the Southern Cathedrals Festival in Salisbury Cathedral, and Handel's 'Messiah' in Tewkesbury Abbey. Handel’s ‘Messiah’ with the CBSO at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Verdi ‘Requiem’ with the English Festival Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, and Howells ‘Hymnus Paradisi’ with the British Sinfonia in Gloucester Cathedral
As an ensemble singer, Rebecca appears internationally and on multiple recordings with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras, and was nominated by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for the Joaninha award. She is a Guest Artist with the Edvard Grieg Kor in Bergen, Norway, performing a series of concerts conducted by Ed Gardner.
Rebecca is an advocate for contemporary repertoire, and has performed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at the RCM, Stockhausen’s ‘In the sky I am walking’ in Germany and the UK, Thomas Adès’ ‘Five Eliot Landscapes’ and ‘Life Story’ at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying György Kurtág's 'Kafka Fragments’.