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Rebecca Wascoe
Dr. Rebecca Wascoe

Assistant Professor
Voice

rw500@msstate.edu
(662) 325-8775
Music Building B, Room 103

  • D. M. A. University of Illinois (IL)
  • M. M. University of North Texas (TX)
  • B. M. University of Texas at Arlington (TX)

Always a crowd favorite, native Texan Rebecca Wascoe is an award-winning soprano on the verge of a promising career. Known for her commanding stage presence and critically acclaimed as "vocally resplendent," she brings a dramatic intensity to each role she takes on. 2006 marked Rebecca's European debut at the Annual Voice Festival in Dierbach, Germany, where she performed the role of Agathe from Der Freischutz. Past roles include Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte and First Lady in The Magic Flute, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, Ann Putnam in The Crucible, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, The Witch and Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel, Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme and Nella in Gianni Schicchi.

In 2006 alone, Miss Wascoe was named the winner of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Awards, an award she also received in 2008, placed in the Sigma Alpha Iota Graduate Performance Awards, and was a Finalist in The Second Annual Charles A. Lynam Competition and the Opera Company of the Quad Cities Competition. She has also been recognized as a semi-finalist in many other international competitions, including the Marguerite McCammon, the Dallas Opera Guild, Opera Birmingham, Irma M. Cooper Opera Columbus Competition, and the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation. She was also the 2007 recipient of the Sigma Alpha Iota Doctoral Grant.

Rebecca's vocal training began in her home state of Texas, where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Musical Theatre from the University of Texas in Arlington. She also holds a Master's Degree in Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas, where she studied with Lynn Eustis, Harold Heiberg, and Jeannine Crader. She recently completed a doctorate in Vocal Performance and Literature at the University of Illinois where she studied with Sylvia Stone, Jeffrey Peterson, Julie Gunn and Thomas Schleis. Ms. Wascoe continues her vocal studies with John Wustman and Inci Bashar.