Rebekah Driscoll

Rebekah Driscoll



Rebekah Driscoll was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1980. As a child she taught herself to play several musical instruments, and as a teenager she began composing music without formal instruction. She has studied flute, voice, and composition at Sarah Lawrence College, where she was the recipient of the Helen Lynd and Jerome Swinford scholarships.
Ms. Driscoll enjoys writing for unusual combinations of instruments and exploring the connections between language and music. She often writes her own texts or creates texts from diverse sources (such as using excerpts from six different plays by Shakespeare to illustrate themes of darkness in The Mask of Night). An avid student of foreign languages, she has studied Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and she has an interest in setting foreign texts to music.
Besides composing, Ms. Driscoll is an active proponent of sustainability and alleviation of poverty. To that end, she is involved with several environmental groups, has served with AmeriCorps in the South Bronx, and recently volunteered at a women's health clinic in Nicaragua.

- the new voice in contemporary music -

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