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Rebecca
Kier received her Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music and her Bachelor of Music from the University
of Delaware. Rebecca began her operatic career at the University of Delaware
singing roles in productions that included A Midsummer Night's Dream,
The Mikado, and Susannah. While pursuing her advanced degree, she performed
Rebecca Nurse in The Crucible and the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas.
Outside
the academic realm, she covered Dryade in Ariadne auf Naxos for Opera
North and performed Meg Page in Falstaff with the Opera Theatre and Music
Festival of Lucca, Italy. Rebecca currently resides in Atlanta, GA where
she is in
her third season as a member of the esteemed Atlanta Opera Chorus. She
recently completed the Atlanta Opera Studio program and engagements as
a
soloist have included performances of the Mozart Requiem, Bach Cantata
BWV 61, Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Virgine, and the Duruflé
Requiem.In the
fall
of 2007, she will travel to Yakima, Washington for a performance of the
Mozart Requiem with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra.
In
addition to performing, Rebecca is currently the Adjunct Professor of
Voice at
the Georgia Institute of Technology and maintains a full studio at the
Pebblebrook Performing Arts High School in Atlanta, GA. She has studied
with Dr. Melanie DeMent, William McGraw, Dr. Robert C. White, Jr., Barbara
Honn, and
Dr. Marilyn Taylor.
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