With her warm, vibrant voice and her lively musical intelligence, soprano Rebecca Plack has charmed audiences across Europe, Canada and the United States. She has given acclaimed solo recitals at the International Great Romantics Festival in Hamilton, Canada and the ATERForum Festival in Ferrara, Italy, and she recently made her London and Budapest recital debuts as a winner of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition. On the operatic stage, Rebecca has performed leading and featured roles with Sacramento Opera and Ithaca Opera, as well as with the Aspen Opera Center. Her extensive stage repertoire includes the title roles in Handel's Semele and Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Mary Turner in Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing; she was also featured in Lully's Le Carnavale Masquerade with lutenist Paul O'Dette. On the concert stage, she has been soprano soloist in oratorios of Bach, Handel and Haydn at the Aspen Music Festival and with the Ithaca Community Chorus, and has premiered works of composers Pierre Charvet, Giancarlo Aquilanti, Meredith Brammeier and Joseph Gregorio. This season, she makes her debut with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento.

Rebecca's training is extensive. She graduated magna cum laude in music from Princeton University, received the MM in voice from Manhattan School of Music, studied with Jane Randolph at the San Francisco Conservatory and holds the PhD in musicology from Cornell University, where she worked on the Köchel catalogue under Neal Zaslaw. As a Lieder singer, she has sung in master classes of Elly Ameling and Paul Sperry and also worked with Malcolm Bilson; as a researcher specializing in Lieder performance, she was awarded an Edison Fellowship to study early recordings at the British Library. She was also a Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival's prestigious Vocal Chamber Music program. Her combined expertise in singing and musicology led to her PhD dissertation, “The Substance of Style: How Singing Creates Sound in Lieder Recordings, 1898-1948.”
 
Rebecca's passions for music, performance and the art of singing coalesce in her teaching. She assisted Will Crutchfield in the inaugural years of his Handel Project, teaching Baroque ornamentation and Italian diction. Later, at Cornell, she taught subjects ranging from opera to rock'n'roll, created a first-year writing seminar on the topic of musical virtuosity and began her career as a voice teacher. This year, she will present two guest lectures at Stanford University. Now, after fifteen years of teaching, she has developed a comprehensive studio program in which young singers learn musicianship skills, languages, musical analysis, performance practice, stagecraft and Alexander Technique. She lives and works in Davis, California.