About this Artist

Rebekah Heller is a bassoon soloist, collaborative artist, educator and advocate for new music. As Co-Artistic Director and bassoonist of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Heller has premiered hundreds of new works. Her two solo albums, 100 names and METAFAGOTE, exclusively feature world-premiere recordings of pieces written for and with her by a diverse group of contemporary composers.

This fall saw Heller’s debut as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, playing the music of longtime collaborator Ashley Fure. She has also been a soloist with the Seattle Symphony the Nagoya Philharmonic, and the New World Symphony. This season sees her continuing to collaborate with a wide array of composers, including Du Yun, Courtney Bryan and George Lewis, on the stages of Met-Live, Miller Theater, National Sawdust, Issue Project Room and beyond.

Committed to fostering conversations around new ways music can be experienced and shared, Heller has been a featured speaker at the New York Philharmonic’s “Insights at the Atrium,” the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Miller Theater and the Abrons Arts Center.

More info at rebekahheller.com