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Rebecca
Mariman
Soprano • Princeton, NJ
email: rmariman@comcast.net
Rebecca Mariman, soprano, is delighted to return to Carmel as an Adams Fellow after being part of the Chorale for the past two summers.
Rebecca has been singing as long as she can remember, beginning with her family, gathered
around her dad's guitar singing Peter, Paul and Mary songs and later, singing together as a family in church.
For her undergraduate studies, Rebecca attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, where she pursued both
drama and music, majoring in theater and studying voice with Brenda Smith, and also had the opportunity to
perform with The Buzz Jones Big Band.
She went on to Westminster Choir College for graduate studies in voice
performance where she studied voice with Lorna MacDonald, coached with Dalton Baldwin, Glenn Parker
and Martin Katz and sang in Westminster Choir under the direction of Joseph Flummerfelt. It was there at Westminster
that her love of Baroque music began and she became a member of the early-music ensemble, Fuma Sacra,
under the direction of Andrew Megill (currently the Carmel Bach Festival Associate Conductor).
Since that
time, Rebecca has performed nearly forty Bach cantatas and all of Bach's major works. A number of these
Bach performances were re-creations of services at Bach's churches with Fuma Sacra in collaboration with Bach
scholar, Dr. Robin Leaver and Baroque violinist, Nancy Wilson. She has also sung a wide range of medieval,
renaissance and earlier Baroque works, including repeat performances as Filia in Carissimi's Jephte, Monteverdi's
Lamento della Ninfa and Vespers of 1610 and Schütz's Musikalisches
Exequien.
She has been a featured soloist in collaborations with Tempesta di Mare, Brandywine Baroque
and The Dryden Ensemble and at the Connecticut Early Music Festival and has appeared as a soloist with the
Westminster Community Chorus, Masterwork Chorus, Voices Chorale, the West Village Chorale and the Garden State
Philharmonic Chorus.
Also a proponent of contemporary music, Rebecca has premiered works including Shema by
Andrew Bleckner, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in which she sang
the role of Eva, Occhi Belli by John Magnusson and In Another Time by the jazz composer, Laurie Altman.
She is
also a cast member of Abolition!, a dramatic and musical work commemorating the 200th anniversary of
the abolition of the slave trade in England due to the tireless work of William Wilberforce. They have given
performances in New Jersey, the Philadelphia area and at Oxford College of Emory University.
Highlights of
the past year include three performances of the little match girl passion by David Lang, Bach's St.
Matthew Passion and a concert of Monteverdi madrigals with Fuma Sacra. She was also featured as a soloist
in Ave Generosa by Hildegarde von Bingen in a recording for NPR of the Carmel Bach Festival Chorale's Mission
concert.
In the midst of all this singing, Rebecca has been raising her five children and homeschooling
them for the first several years of their education. Now that they are in school, Rebecca is spending more
time pursuing a singing career. She and her family live in Princeton, New Jersey where she studies voice with
tenor, Timothy Bentch.
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