Rebecca Dale

Recommended by Coldplay and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and described by Classic FM as “one of today’s most exciting young composers - a household name in years to come”, British composer Rebecca Dale made history in 2018 when she became the first female composer to sign to Universal Music’s Decca Classics label.
This was after her self-release for choir and orchestra, “I’ll Sing” reached No.1 in the iTunes Classical Singles charts; her debut album, featuring her requiem and choral symphony, then went to No.1 in the UK’s specialist Classical charts.
Rebecca’s music is broadcast regularly on classical radio and has been performed and commissioned by many ensembles, including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the London Mozart Players, the Scottish Festival Orchestra, Voces8, Sonoro, Sansara, Musica Intima, and soloists Nicola Benedetti, Mari & Hakon Samuelson, Angele Dubeau, Joby Burgess and Louise Alder. Her requiem was premiered by the Welsh National Opera’s community chorus and is performed widely around the world; she writes regularly for choirs and was 2023 composer in residence for the Opus Foundation, with a series of dedicated concerts of her work for choir and orchestra across the Netherlands culminating at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. In 2021 she was commissioned to write the Church of England and Classic FM’s first Christmas single, and in 2023 HRH King Charles selected her orchestral reimagining of a Scottish folk melody for the Scottish service for his coronation.
Upcoming commissions include recording with cellist Raphaela Gromez and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, and for percussionist Alexej Gerassimez at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf.
In addition to her concert work Rebecca composes and orchestrates for screen, working on projects for HBO, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Working Title, Sky and the BBC. She contributed music for BBC One’s adaption of Little Women, and has been nominated for best original music in feature film at the international Music & Sound Awards. She is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, the Sundance Composers Lab and the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, and has judged for the Royal Television Society Awards and the Ivor Novellos. Her orchestral work has been recorded and conducted by her at Abbey Road, Air Studios, George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and Fox Studios, Hollywood.
Born in London, Rebecca was composing from very young, completing her first musical aged 10 and piano concerto at 15, before studying at Oxford University (New College) and the National Film & Television School. Her writing is imbued with a love for both choral and film music.