Rebekkah Hilgraves:
CLASS OF 1984
St. Charles High SchoolClass of 1984
St. charles, IL
Central High SchoolClass of 1984
Burlington, IL
Central Junior High SchoolClass of 1981
Burlington, IL
Edgewood Middle SchoolClass of 1979
Wooster, OH
Braddock Elementary SchoolClass of 1978
Annandale, VA
Rebekkah's Story
Life
Since graduation, I've traveled much in my adult life, and have spent time in Los Angeles, Buffalo, San Francisco, Seattle and New York City. Now, at last, I call eastern Tennessee home, right up next to the Smokies.
I have had the good fortune to perform with The Lamplighters, a light opera repertory company in San Francisco that specializes in Gilbert and Sullivan and similar productions. While in San Francisco, I also sang the leading role in "The Star" ("L'Ãtoile") by Emanuel Chabrier, with Pocket Opera, another light opera group which presents operas in English (in great translations by its director, Donald Pippin). Pippin's work and Chabrier's music helped to inspire a growing fondness for fin-de-siècle French music, and to this day Chabrier and his contemporaries just... send me! I continue to study and perform regularly; I have had a number of performances in Seattle and around New York in the last couple of years, and completed the title role in SUOR ANGELICA a few summers ago in New York. I've done lots of additional performing, more recently singing the leading r...Expand for more
ole in the opera LA TRAVIATA, and as a guest soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic.
I teach singing out of my home studio, and also now have my own business, SheTech and Company. More on that in the "Workplace" section...
It is not easy to be a singer in a society that does not take music seriously as a professional pursuit. I have had to develop a separate technical career in parallel in order to support my need for musical expression. Contrary to what many people might think, the pursuit of music as a serious craft is a difficult undertaking, and every bit as deserving of recognition as, say, stock brokerage, or software development.
School
I had a conversation not long ago with a fellow STC grad ('84 also) on whom I had the BIGGEST crush... and it turns out he had a crush on me, or at least on my voice. We chuckled over it, and wondered why it is that we never find these things out until a century later...
Workplace
Too much to name here! Look me up on LinkedIn!! My company is "SheTech and Company" -- and you can find references to "SheTech" in a lot of places on the web.
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