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Rebekkah Hilgraves was born in Washington, D.C. and now makes her home in Los Angeles. She began training seriously for a vocal career at an early age. Studies in Voice Performance at Northern Illinois University included art song and opera, early music performance practice, vocal pedagogy and stagecraft. She also began broadcasting at WNIU in DeKalb, continuing in broadcasting, commercial and industrial voice-over work in several major markets in the years since. Currently she hosts a weekly program on Stillstream.com called At Water’s Edge.

Her singing instructors have included Myron Myers in Chicago; Genia Las in Buffalo, New York; Edward Sayegh, a San Francisco-based instructor; Gerald Martin-Moore, Thomas Wolf, and Neal Goren in New York City.

Ms. Hilgraves also teaches private voice lessons, seminars and master classes through her teaching studio in Los Angeles and as a visiting resident at Northern Illinois University.


Voice-over and broadcasting

Member, SAG-AFTRA

Starting at WNIU in DeKalb, Illinois in 1986, Rebekkah has been broadcasting and producing, hosting classical, jazz and news programs in several markets across the U.S., including KQED in San Francisco, KING-FM in Seattle and WNED-FM in Buffalo.

In addition to her work in radio, Rebekkah has also done commercial and industrial voice-over work, including commercials for Thomasville Home Furnishings, Bojangle’s and several other major advertisers, and training and marketing videos for Digital Landing, Marketo and many other clients.

Currently she hosts a weekly program on Stillstream.com (you can hear archived broadcasts here).

Classical

Rebekkah actively performs in numerous operas, solo recitals and as a guest concert artist in venues throughout the United States. She gave the premiere performance of a new work, Rachel Rising (text by Rebekkah, and music by Rob Deemer) in October 2008 in Tennessee, and performed it again in October 2013 at Northern Illinois University as the culmination of a week long teaching residency.

In and around New York City, she has performed the roles of “Violetta” in Verdi’s La Traviata (Little Opera Company of New Jersey, 2006), “Rachel” in the world premiere of The Eglantine by Sam Belich (New York City, 2005), “Elisabetta” in Verdi’s Don Carlo (Opera Drammatica, 2004), “Gerhilde” in Wagner’s Die Walküre (The Valkyrie Project, 2005 and Opera Drammatica, 2004), the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Chelsea Opera, 2004 and American Singers Opera Project, 2003), and has performed the soprano solo in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass (Ars Musica Orchestra and Chorale, 2002). In 2003, she also received “Honorable Mention” by the Amici Vocal Competition in Connecticut.

Elsewhere around the U.S., she has appeared as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic (2007), Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra (1998, 1999, 2000) and with Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers (1999, 2000), as well as being a founding member of the women’s vocal ensemble, The Sisters (1998-2000). She presents regular solo recitals in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Buffalo, and New York City.

Ms. Hilgraves’ current repertoire covers a broad range of languages and styles, and includes “Lady Macbeth” in Verdi’s Macbeth, “Leonore” in Beethoven’s Fidelio, “Donna Elvira” in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Richard Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, as well as song repertoire in French, German, Italian, English, Latin, and Czech. She is also preparing the mélodies by French composer Charles Bordes (1863-1909) for recording, having presented many in their American premieres.

The soprano has been named “Best Actress in a Musical” by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle for the leading role in an original work with the Lamplighters, itself an award-winning light opera company in San Francisco. Ms. Hilgraves has starred in operas and light operas, including in L’Étoile by Chabrier (Princess Laoula) with Pocket Opera (San Francisco); the title role in Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan (Lamplighters); the Second Prioress (Madame Lidoine) in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites; “Helen” in Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters by Ned Rorem.

Critics have acclaimed Ms. Hilgraves with “…an opulently effulgent tone…” (John Hammell, Mozart to Motorhead, 2005), “…a gorgeous soprano who can act.” (San Francisco Review, 1996), “…this vivacious soprano…” (John Bell Young, distinguished pianist and critic, Opera News, American Record Guide, 1999) and “…ample and ringing. Lovely! … in your ecstatic transports the grasp of the scholar is transmuted into the lyric flair—the richly nuanced aperçus–of the artist.” (Adrian Corleonis, Fanfare Magazine, Sounds of Seattle, 1999).

Jazz

Ms. Hilgraves has appeared as a jazz vocalist in venues around North America. Her jazz career is nearly as long-lived as her classical career. Under the careful instruction of the great jazz musicians Scotty Wright (San Francisco) and Robert Murphy (North Carolina), and studying the work of jazz greats Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and others, she successfully moves from classical singing to jazz and back again at will.

She can be heard on a recording by Los Caribes, a Buffalo-based Latin jazz group headed by Michael Colquhoun. Michael’s review of Rebekkah’s work was: “…you are currently listed as Coro under percussion – that’s gonna change to a listing under Brass considering Your VOICE girl! I can hear you from here!!”

Rebekkah Hilgraves: opera, jazz, contemporary and spoken samples

Lady Macbeth - Sleepwalking scene (Act V, Scene 1), 2nd reading

Rebekkah MsEscrow

Recorded in John's studio using our binaural mic. Listen in headphones to get the full effect.

Lush Life (with John Capo, piano)

Live performance at Northern Illinois University, October 2009 with my dear friend Valerie Blair.

Hermit Songs- X - A desire for hermitage

Raw voice tracks for John Tocher's "Alice in Wonderland" project, available in various places. The final version of these tracks appears at http://archive.org/details/bof033

Alice: Duchess (edit)

Alice: White Rabbit, Pat and Bill (edit)

Numinous day, morning winter light raising a warm glow from old, whitewashed bricks, the neighborhood nothing special, the people, only human, a man smoking a cigarette in a parking lot, a bird waiting to sing, a silence after heartbreak. Tell me, someone, how is it possible to kill in a world so beautiful? Tell me how it is possible to secure silence against gunshots and cries of pain. But also, don't secure the silence, but fill it: with your voices, hopes, joys, griefs, anguish and all: so it doesn't hurt my ears: so we wind good sounds into a fabric to outargue death. Good morning, friends.

--<a href="http://www.shymala.com" target="_blank">Shymala Dason</a>

Numinous Day

A brief clip from "La Bamba" from Los Caribes. Rebekkah did all the female backing vocals on this track.

La Bamba (demo 1)

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