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  • Rebekah Heller

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    Rebekah Heller

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    Bassoonist, conductor, educator, composer, and curator Rebekah Heller’s career has focused primarily on creating and sharing new music. As bassoonist (since 2008), and former Co-Artistic Director of the renowned NYC-based International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Heller has collaborated with hundreds of composers worldwide to make countless groundbreaking new pieces come to life as a co-conspirator in the creative process. Called "an impressive solo bassoonist" by The New Yorker, she has released two acclaimed solo albums of new music written for and with her by a diverse community of composers. In 2024, she released a collaboration with Steve Reich — a multi-track bassoon piece called Grand Street Counterpoint (on which Reich and Heller are co-producers) — and she released her first solo EP featuring her own compositions, ONE, on Relative Pitch Records.  

    Heller has been on the faculty of The Mannes School of Music at The New School since 2019, where she leads a bassoon studio, co-chairs the wind department, and teaches classes in contemporary repertoire, improvisation for classical musicians, and new music practices.

    Photo credit: Tarishi Gupta


    Current Courses

    Independent Study
    LMUS 3950, Fall 2024

    Int. to New Music & Open Forms
    CAPR 5665, Fall 2024

    Intl Contemporary Ensemble Lab
    COPA 5650, Fall 2024

    Performance Class: Bassoon
    CAPR 3508, Fall 2024

    Performance Class: Bassoon
    CAPR 5511, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Stone Lab 1
    CMUS 5510, Summer 2025

    Past Courses

    Intl Contemporary Ensemble Lab
    COPA 5650, Spring 2024

    Performance Class: Bassoon
    CAPR 5511, Spring 2024

    Performance Class: Bassoon
    CAPR 3508, Spring 2024

    Stone Lab 1
    CMUS 5510, Summer 2024

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