Rebecca Hardwick

Rebecca read Music at the University of York, before studying at the Royal College of Music. She then completed the Opera Work course at English National Opera, and was an Apprentice with the Monteverdi Choir 2014-2015.

Her concert highlights include Handel ‘Messiah’ with the CBSO at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, Bach ‘St Matthew Passion’ at Hampstead Parish Church, and Howells ‘Hymnus Paradisi’ with the British Sinfonia in Gloucester Cathedral. Rebecca is covering the roles of Nedda (I Pagliacci) and Nella (Gianni Schicchi) at Neville Holt Opera this summer. She will also perform Verdi ‘Requiem’ at the Royal Albert Hall.

Recent operatic highlights include First Bridesmaid in Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), Isabella in L’inganno Felice (Rossini, Wexford Festival Opera) Belinda (cover) in Dido’s Ghost (Dunedin Consort), and Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss, Berlin Opera Academy). Other concert appearances include Dyson’s ‘Quo Vadis’ at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford Cathedral, Haydn ‘Creation’ in the Southern Cathedrals Festival in Salisbury Cathedral, and Handel ‘Messiah’ in Tewkesbury Abbey. 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’ for soprano and violin.