Rebecca Hardwick, soprano

Soprano Rebecca Hardwick is based in London and is known for her versatility and strength of musicianship.

Her concert highlights for the 23/24 season include Verdi Requiem with the English Festival Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, and both Verdi and Brahms Requiem in Cadogan Hall. Rebecca performed in both the premiere and revival of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Venere e Adone at Staatsoper Hamburg.

Roles at the Royal College of Music (scenes) include The Governess The Turn of the Screw (Britten) Semele L’Egisto (Cavalli), The Raver On False Perspectives (Josephine Stephenson). Other operatic highlights include Isabella L’inganno Felice (Rossini, Wexford Festival Opera) cover Belinda Dido’s Ghost (Errolyn Wallen, Dunedin Consort), Zerbinetta Ariadne auf Naxos, Dot/ Day The Enchanted Pig (Jonathon Dove, Hampstead Garden Opera), First Bridesmaid in Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Opera House). For Opera Holland Park; Una Conversa (Suor Angelica), La Cugina (Madame Butterfly), Victorian in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Will Todd, also Lindbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House). Recent concert appearances include Bach St John Passion at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral, Haydn Creation in the Southern Cathedrals Festival in Salisbury Cathedral, and Brahms Requiem in Worcester Cathedral.

As an ensemble singer and step-out soloist, 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 Edward Gardner.

Rebecca is a member of the Hampstead Collective, with whom she has performed in a variety of concerts including song recitals of Strauss Brentano Lieder and Howells In Green Ways, Mozart Exsultate Jubilate and J. S. Bach Weinachtsoratorium with the Players of the Hampstead Collective, and Couperin Leçons de ténèbres with viola da gamba and theorbo.

Rebecca is an advocate for contemporary repertoire, and has performed Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire at the RCM, Stockhausen In the sky 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 Kafka Fragments.

Rebecca read Music at the University of York, before studying at the Royal College of Music with Tim Evans Jones. She then completed the Opera Works course at English National Opera, and was an Apprentice with the Monteverdi Choir.