Emerging Artist: Rebecca Leggett

Rebecca Leggett is a masters graduate of the Royal College of Music where she was an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar and studied with Alison Wells. Prior to this, Rebecca completed her undergraduate degree at Trinity Laban Conservatoire graduating with First Class Honours and the TCM Trust Silver Medal for Voice.

Rebecca is the recipient of the Coro Nuovo Young Musician of the Year 2018, and in 2022 was made an ambassador of the competition which seeks to support young musicians from Sussex. At the RCM she won the 2020 Brooks-van der Pump English Song Competition and received the Audience Prize for the 2019 Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at the Wigmore Hall. Whilst at Trinity Laban she was awarded the Wilfred Greenhouse Allt Prize for Oratorio & Cantata and first prize in the Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Competition. Recent stage highlights include playing the role of Cupid in John Blow’s ‘Venus and Adonis’ for Blackheath Halls Opera and a UK tour to venues such as Sadlers Wells and The Lowry with contemporary ballet company Rambert performing Monteverdi’s ‘Lamento della Ninfa’.

Rebecca is a keen early music soloist and recently stepped in for Bach's St. John Passion both with the OAE, lead by Mark Padmore at Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the City of London Sinfonia alongside Joanne Lunn and Roderick Williams. This summer she made her Wigmore Hall concert debut with Arcangelo conducted by Jonathan Cohen. In 2023/24 Rebecca will be one of eight singers on Le Jardin des Voix, the young artist programme of Les Arts Florissants, performing Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ with William Christie and Paul Agnew.

Song is also high on the agenda for Rebecca and in recent years she has given recitals for both the Lewes Song Festival and London Song Festival. This autumn, she will give a joint recital for the Thames Concert Series with countertenor Hugh Cutting and in the spring she’ll partake in a joint recital with Brindley Sherratt for the Ludlow Festival accompanied by Iain Burnside. Rebecca is represented by Tommaso Celleno at CLB Management. rebeccaleggett.com