Rebecca Sherburn’s performing experiences are varied and international. In addition to vast standard repertoire she has distinguished herself as a concert artist performing many rarely heard contemporary chamber works. She has been featured by a variety of regional opera companies in the United States, Germany and Switzerland often as the Queen of the Night. She was engaged by the Zurich opera as an apprentice, by the State Theater in Osnabrück, Germany as a leading soloist, and in Hamburg where she sang Carlotta Giudicelli, the coloratura soprano role in Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom of the Opera.
Dr. Sherburn has been awarded a number of competitive grants. Among them two UMKC faculty research grants, and a grant from the International Visual and Performing Arts Center to facilitate a recording project. “Make Me A Song: Obbligato Songs by American Composers,” a compact disc recording of previously unrecorded songs written for soprano, piano, and obbligato instruments by composers of the Second New England School will be released by Albany Records.
Dr. Sherburn's students are teaching on the college level, participating in young artists programs and singing with local and national opera companies. She currently serves as Interim Assistant Dean for Performance Activities/Operations at the UMKC Conservatory.
