Rebecca Brunette
soprano
Rebecca Brunette is a recent graduate of the UNM music program. A lifelong lover of music, she is delighted to be singing with the New Mexico Philharmonic. As an undergraduate, she has performed many roles, including Hanna Glawari in Lehar’s The Merry Widow, the Starbird in Mollicone’s opera of the same name and, most recently, Rosalinde in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus. In 2015, she made her soloistic debut with the Red Rock String Ensemble in Vivaldi’s Gloria. Over the past few years, she has been a soloist with Coro Lux, singing the soprano solos in Brahms’s Eine deutsches Requiem and Jenkins’s The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. She would like to thank her teachers, Donna McRae and Leslie Umphrey, for their constant support and attentiveness; Bradley Ellingboe for his mentorship; and all of the supporters of the arts in New Mexico for providing young artists with a safe place to explore their craft and a springboard into the greater artistic community.