Please give a warm welcome to composer Rebekah Driscoll!
Rebekah Driscoll was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1980. As a child she taught herself to play several musical instruments, and as a teenager she began composing music without formal instruction. She later studied flute, voice, and composition at Sarah Lawrence College and composition at Brooklyn College Conservatory, City University of New York. Her composition teachers include Chester Biscardi, Jason Eckardt, and Tania León.
Rebekah enjoys writing for unusual combinations of instruments and voices, exploring the connections between language and music. She often writes her own texts or creates texts from diverse sources, such as using excerpts from six different plays by Shakespeare to illustrate themes of darkness in The Mask of Night. Her mobile-form Driscoll Alphabet for chorus, a winner of the 2009 Essentially Choral competition, allows singers to spell out words of their choice with music, creating pieces that uniquely suit the performers’ tastes and abilities. She also studies various foreign languages and sings with choruses throughout the New York City area.
Rebekah’s pieces can be found here.
About Dennis Tobenski
Dennis Tobenski (b. 1982) has been hailed by the New York Times as a "dynamic vocalist" and a composer whose music is "distinctive and engaging". He has studied with composers David Del Tredici, Chester Biscardi, Daron Hagen, and Stephen Andrew Taylor, and has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Prairie Center of the Arts, and the Ucross Foundation. Dennis is the co-founder of the Tobenski-Algera Concert Series, whose mission is to present and promote new music by young and emerging composers, and the founder of NewMusicShelf.com, an online digital distributor of scores by self-published composers. (
http://www.dennistobenski.com)
