BIOGRAPHY
Welsh pianist Rebecca Cohen is in demand as a collaborative pianist specialising in song repertoire. She has appeared in recital in the UK and Europe, partnering leading song performers including Joan Rodgers, Benedict Nelson, James Newby and Claire Barnett-Jones. Concert highlights include London’s Wigmore Hall, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, National Concert Hall, Dublin and the Mozarthaus Vienna.
Recent and forthcoming engagements include a programme of song celebrating Charles Stanford’s legacy at the Great Hall, Belfast which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of the Belfast International Festival of Chamber Music, the world premiere of a BBC Radio 3 Commission by composer Ella Jarman-Pinto as part of International Women’s Day with soprano Nazan Fikret, and recitals in London, Wexford and Aldeburgh where she has recently been invited to curate a concert to mark Benjamin Britten’s birthday in November 2023 with tenor Ben Johnson.
Rebecca is Co-Director of Song in the City, an initiative which promotes classical song as an artform introducing it to new audiences through collaborations with performers from other artistic disciplines, commissioning new works and curating social projects.
Currently a member of professorial staff at the Guildhall School, Rebecca co-directs Creative Minds in Song; a project for postgraduate singers, pianists and composers together with writers in the community which inspires the co-creation of brand-new songs. The most recent world premiere performance took place at Milton Court, Barbican Centre in May 2023.
Educated at the University of York, she completed her studies in collaborative piano at the Guildhall School and later at the Franz Schubert Institut in Austria. Competition successes include finalist in the Das Lied International Song Competition alongside soprano Nazan Fikret which featured in the BBC documentary ‘Becoming a Lied Singer: Thomas Quasthoff and the art of German Song’, the Lillian Ash French song prize and the Paul Hamburger Prize for accompaniment awarded by Graham Johnson as part of his prestigious Song Guild.
She is a member of faculty at Junior Trinity Laban where she teaches leads piano performance classes, and has run workshops and masterclasses for various organisations including EPTA and Wigmore Hall Learning.
Rebecca was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA) in 2015 and is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
BIOGRAPHY
Welsh pianist Rebecca Cohen is in demand as a collaborative pianist specialising in song repertoire. She has appeared in recital in the UK and Europe, partnering leading song performers including Joan Rodgers, Benedict Nelson, James Newby and Claire Barnett-Jones. Concert highlights include London’s Wigmore Hall, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, National Concert Hall, Dublin and the Mozarthaus Vienna.
Recent and forthcoming engagements include a programme of song celebrating Charles Stanford’s legacy at the Great Hall, Belfast which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as part of the Belfast International Festival of Chamber Music, the world premiere of a BBC Radio 3 Commission by composer Ella Jarman-Pinto as part of International Women’s Day with soprano Nazan Fikret, and recitals in London, Wexford and Aldeburgh where she has recently been invited to curate a concert to mark Benjamin Britten’s birthday in November 2023 with tenor Ben Johnson.
Rebecca is Co-Director of Song in the City, an initiative which promotes classical song as an artform introducing it to new audiences through collaborations with performers from other artistic disciplines, commissioning new works and curating social projects.
Currently a member of professorial staff at the Guildhall School, Rebecca co-directs Creative Minds in Song; a project for postgraduate singers, pianists and composers together with writers in the community which inspires the co-creation of brand-new songs. The most recent world premiere performance took place at Milton Court, Barbican Centre in May 2023.
Educated at the University of York, she completed her studies in collaborative piano at the Guildhall School and later at the Franz Schubert Institut in Austria. Competition successes include finalist in the Das Lied International Song Competition alongside soprano Nazan Fikret which featured in the BBC documentary ‘Becoming a Lied Singer: Thomas Quasthoff and the art of German Song’, the Lillian Ash French song prize and the Paul Hamburger Prize for accompaniment awarded by Graham Johnson as part of his prestigious Song Guild.
She is a member of faculty at Junior Trinity Laban where she teaches leads piano performance classes, and has run workshops and masterclasses for various organisations including EPTA and Wigmore Hall Learning.
Rebecca was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA) in 2015 and is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).