Rebecca Hammond (nee Stockwell) is a professional bassoon player, specialising in historical instruments.
She is the Professor of Historical Bassoons at the Royal Academy of Music, and Professor of Baroque Bassoon at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Rebecca is also on the pedagogical faculty for the Master MRPE (Musique: Recherche et Pratiques d’ensemble), a specialised postgraduate degree delivered in partnership with the Université de Poitiers and Université de Tours, at the Abbay aux Dames, Saintes in France.
Having studied in London, Paris and Saintes, Rebecca's performing career has led a truly international path. She played for a decade with leading French orchestra "Les Siecles", and has been invited as a visiting bassoonist in orchestras spanning the globe, from Norway to Russia, Israel, Palestine, Mumbai and Melbourne.
Rebecca is a regular performer with many world-class British ensembles including The Academy of Ancient Music, The English Baroque Soloists, The English Concert, The Hanover Band, The London Handel Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and The Orchestre Romantique et Revolutionnaire.
Equally at home in the orchestral pit as on the concert platform, Rebecca has performed multiple seasons in such prestigious venues as Glyndebourne Opera, The Royal Opera House, and Garsington Opera. She has also enjoyed touring with The Royal Danish Ballet, and the Hofesch Schechter companies.
As a founder member of The Oboe Band, Rebecca spent two years with the Ensemble in Residence at the Royal College of Music.
Rebecca has performed on a wide variety of commercially available recordings, most notably those by Glyndebourne Productions, The English Concert, The Oboe Band, Collegium Musicum 90, The Gabrieli Players, Les Siecles, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and most recently Sabi Ensemble.
Rebecca Hammond is a member of the Royal Society of Musicians, and The Musicians' Union.
MMus (PDOT) GSMD; Pg Cert; FHEA
She is the Professor of Historical Bassoons at the Royal Academy of Music, and Professor of Baroque Bassoon at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Rebecca is also on the pedagogical faculty for the Master MRPE (Musique: Recherche et Pratiques d’ensemble), a specialised postgraduate degree delivered in partnership with the Université de Poitiers and Université de Tours, at the Abbay aux Dames, Saintes in France.
Having studied in London, Paris and Saintes, Rebecca's performing career has led a truly international path. She played for a decade with leading French orchestra "Les Siecles", and has been invited as a visiting bassoonist in orchestras spanning the globe, from Norway to Russia, Israel, Palestine, Mumbai and Melbourne.
Rebecca is a regular performer with many world-class British ensembles including The Academy of Ancient Music, The English Baroque Soloists, The English Concert, The Hanover Band, The London Handel Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and The Orchestre Romantique et Revolutionnaire.
Equally at home in the orchestral pit as on the concert platform, Rebecca has performed multiple seasons in such prestigious venues as Glyndebourne Opera, The Royal Opera House, and Garsington Opera. She has also enjoyed touring with The Royal Danish Ballet, and the Hofesch Schechter companies.
As a founder member of The Oboe Band, Rebecca spent two years with the Ensemble in Residence at the Royal College of Music.
Rebecca has performed on a wide variety of commercially available recordings, most notably those by Glyndebourne Productions, The English Concert, The Oboe Band, Collegium Musicum 90, The Gabrieli Players, Les Siecles, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and most recently Sabi Ensemble.
Rebecca Hammond is a member of the Royal Society of Musicians, and The Musicians' Union.
MMus (PDOT) GSMD; Pg Cert; FHEA
