A soprano known for her clarity of line and reaching interpretations, Rebecca Furbush-Bayer has performed as a soloist and choral singer throughout the U.S. and in Europe. She recently completed a Masters degree in Early Music from the Longy School of Music where she was a 2007 Honors Competition winner. While at Longy she studied voice with Jayne West and has also studied with Pamela Kurau at SUNY Geneseo. Rebecca has performed the roles Amahl in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, Galatea in Acis and Galatea by Handel, and, most recently, Serpetta in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera. Rebecca has also sung with the Cathedral Choir of St. Paul in Boston and concertizes regularly with the early music quartet Music for a while and lutenists Seth Warner and Scott Lemire.
She has appeared on Maine Public Radio's "Live at eleven" and on the 2007 Boston Early Music Festival fringe concert series. Rebecca has also served as co-director at a children's Shakespeare camp in Ithaca, New York, where she now makes her home and bases her active music career.