Rebekah Heller
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hellerr@newschool.edu
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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. Â
Heller has been on the faculty of The Mannes School of Music at Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ 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.
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Int. to New Music & Open Forms
CAPR 5665, Fall 2025