Rebecca Daniel

Rebecca played violin from the age of four, & sang professionally in opera at nine, at twelve she was the first child soprano to perform the role of Flora in Benjamin Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw throughout the UK, directed by Sir Nicholas Hytner. She was a member of The Tudor Consort of Rochester Cathedral in England, & is currently a member of Blue Mountains madrigal group Canon Fodder. Rebecca studied piano with Royal College of Music Professor Alan Rowlands, & violin/chamber music with Emanuel Hurwitz & the Amadeus String Quartet at The Royal Academy of Music London. Also, a member of the Chamber Orchestra with Trevor Pinnock and Simon Standage, & leader of the Manson Ensemble, specialising in contemporary chamber works, a founding member of the Parnassus String Ensemble, toured the UK and was then invited to join The Australian Chamber Orchestra. She played with SSO lead the orchestra for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music & Beauty & the Beast. She played for West Side Story, A Little Night Music & has recorded and performed with John Denver, Bread, James Galway & the Chieftains, Will Ackerman, Shirley Bassey, John Farnham, Anthony Warlow, Barbra Streisand, Men at Work, and INXS. Rebecca has collaborated with Fiona Joy Hawkins, has performed at the Sydney Opera House for the 2012 MusicOz Awards and together they were invited to New Orleans to perform at the 2014 ZMR Awards. Rebecca also performs with the Kanimbla String Quartet.