Who's Who - Rebecca Outram

Rebecca Outram started her musical life as a pianist - it was only on joining the chapel choir of Keble College, Oxford that she discovered her voice and her passion for singing. On leaving Oxford Rebecca went on to study at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, since when she has built up an impressive career in a variety of musical fields.

She is constantly in demand as a solo consort artist, and as such has been a founding member of two of the more recent Gramophone award winning period vocal ensembles of this country; namely The Cardinall's Musick and The Clerks' Group. She also sings with most of the other well-known groups in this field, including The Gabrieli Consort. With The Sixteen Rebecca has been a soloist at the Salisbury Festival in Vivaldi's Gloria and Handels' Dixit Dominus. She performed Couperin's Lecons de Tenebres with The King's Consort at the Wigmore Hall and the Nuremburg Festival, and she is in the process of recording Monteverdi sacred music with Robert King and Hyperion records. She also sang Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with The King's Consort at the Bath Festival ("a fine Belinda" - The Independent).

She is a regular soloist with the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, performing Haydn's Nelson and Harmonie Masses. With the Lufthansa Festival at London's St John's Smith Square she performed Handel's L'Allegro with Ivor Bolton ("light-filled soprano" - The Times), and with the London Handel Festival, Esther, in London and Norway. Past concerts also include Bach's Christmas Oratorio conducted by Sir David Wilcocks, a recording of Bach Motets with The Hilliard Ensemble, and Bach's B minor Mass in Barcelona. Rebecca made her solo debut at last year's BBC Proms, singing Monteverdi's Vespers with The King's Consort ("outstanding" - The Observer) and has appeared this year with The Gabrieli Consort, performing Purcell's The Fairy Queen.