REBECCA NASH
Born in Melbourne, REBECCA NASH, soprano, studied Arts at Monash University in Melbourne and singing with Dame Joan Hammond. She was awarded a Senior Exhibitioner scholarship to study for an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Opera at the Royal College of Music, which she completed in 1999. In 1996 she was selected to participate in the inaugural Vocal Program at the Australian National Academy of Music where she was awarded the Dame Joan Sutherland Singing Award (Australia's major singing prize). Among her numerous awards have been the Herald-Sun Aria, the Marianne Mathy Scholarship at the Australian Singing Competition, the Temple Square Concert Series Prize and the Royal College of Music Prize. Rebecca performed her recital for the Temple Square Concert Series in Salt Lake City, Utah in August 1997.
In Australia Rebecca performed extensively with regional opera companies and symphony orchestras. She has performed the role of Lady Billows in Britten's Albert Herring with the Royal College of Music and at the Perth Festival in Scotland and Donna Anna with the European Opera Players in Ireland. Most recently, she has prepared and covered Katya Kabanova and Donna Anna for Scottish Opera, Arabella and Magda in La Rondine for Opera North, Katya Kabanova for Welsh National Opera and Desdemona in Otello for the Glyndebourne Festival.
In 2000 she sang Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly for Scottish Opera and made her debut with Opera Australia as The Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at the Sydney Opera House. In concert she has sung Strauss' Vier letzte Lieder with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding.
This season she makes her debut with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Barena in Jenufa under Bernard Haitink and in concert performances of Daphne under Christian Thielemann and makes her debut with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Beethoven's Egmont under Frans Bruggen.
