Rebecca Dale

Artist Statement

I am a tonal composer whose work is informed by a background in film and choral music. Film music has been indebted to concert music in its developments, and I enjoy integrating aspects of that soundworld back into the concert hall. I love to write music that makes me feel, I love melody, dense and expansive harmony and exploring the many of colours the choir and orchestra (which I was obsessed with from very young). Music is emotional catharsis so my work often, though not always, connects with processing the grief and loss that have been part of my personal experience, and more generally I suspect the yearning that's an unavoidable part of the human condition. I feel very lucky that I get to do it..

Recording at Fox Studios, Hollywood

Bio

Described by Classic FM as ‘one of today’s most exciting young composers’, British composer Rebecca Dale made history in when she became the first female composer to sign to Universal Music's Decca Classics label. Her debut album, Requiem For My Mother, went to No. 1 in the UK Specialist Classical Charts and her music is broadcast regularly on radio. As a concert composer her work has been performed by ensembles and artists including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, Tenebrae, Voces8, Steven Isserlis, Mari Samuelson and Angele Dubeau. Rebecca also composes for screen, most recently scoring the BBC's Write Around The World series with Richard E Grant, contributing music for the BBC adaption of Little Women and scoring for Sky's Urban Myths series. Her score to feature Crossing The Line was nominated for best original music in feature film at the Music & Sound Awards. She is an alumna of the Sundance Composers Lab, the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop and has judged for the Royal Television Society Awards and Ivor Novellos. She is currently the composer in residence for the Opus Foundation at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and in 2021 was commissioned to write the Church of England's first Christmas single.