Rebecca Leggett - Mezzo

Rebecca Leggett trained in London at both Trinity Laban Conservatoire and The Royal College of Music. She is part of the 11th edition of ‘Le Jardin des Voix’ 2023/24, the young artist programme of Les Arts Florissants. They have toured Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ internationally with William Christie and Paul Agnew to venues including Teatro alla Scala, Lincoln Center NYC and the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms 2024. Future engagements with LAF include the role of Piacere in Handel’s ‘Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno’ and William Christie’s 80th birthday tour in 2025 to venues such as Carnegie Hall.

Rebecca is also one of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s ‘Rising Stars’ for 2023/25 and in the Spring she performed Bach’s ‘Easter Oratorio’ at the Southbank Centre with the group conducted by Peter Whelan. Other concert highlights from the past year include a programme of Bach at the Wigmore Hall with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, Mozart’s Requiem with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra at The Sheldonian Theatre and Handel’s Theodora with Collegium Musicum Bergen in Norway conducted by Nicholas Kraemer. This autumn she will make her Monteverdi Choir concert debut as alto soloist for a programme of Charpentier and Bach conducted by Christophe Rousset.

Rebecca was a finalist at the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2023 with pianist George Ireland at the Wigmore Hall. She and George received first place at the 2022 London Song Festival’s British Art-Song Competition and whilst studying at the RCM she won the 2020 Brooks-van der Pump English Song Competition. Song is high on the agenda for Rebecca and in recent years she has given recitals for the Lewes Song Festival, Thames Concert Series, Ludlow Song Weekend, London Song Festival, Brighton Festival and the Oxford International Song Festival (Oxford Lieder Festival). She is represented by CLB  Management: