Our Associate Director, Rebecca Lord

REBECCA LORD, Associate Director of Choral Activities at UCLA, conducts the University Chorus and directs the UCLA Choral Outreach Program. She is also the Chorus Master for the Arizona Musicfest in Phoenix. Dr. Lord received her MM & DMA in conducting under the instruction of Donald Neuen at UCLA, where she was named the top music graduate student. She has conducted in concert all of UCLA’s major choral and orchestral ensembles, as well as the Early Music Ensemble.  

Dr. Lord was one of five young orchestral conductors selected nationally to conduct in the 2011 Atlantic Music Festival. She also recently prepared choirs for the Los Angeles performances of Pandemonium (by the creators of STOMP) & Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy, & assistant conducted Monteverdi’s Vespers in Columbia, South Carolina. She will be conducting at Carnegie Hall’s Transient Glory Symposium this February.

Equally at home as a violinist, violist, vocalist, actress, and dancer, Dr. Lord has performed in many locations around the country.  As a soprano in NYC’s Trinity Wall Street Choir and Bach Vespers Choir, she performed repeatedly as a soloist.  Elsewhere, she has soloed in oratorio and concert settings. A member of Actor’s Equity, Dr. Lord has performed as a professional actress for over fifteen years. She has performed as a violinist for professional opera, ballet and theatre companies, on tour, and in the recording studio. She has conducted public school music in Pennsylvania and Utah.

Dr. Lord holds a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, in vocal performance from Georgia State University and a certificate of acting from Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre School.  She has also studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Chautauqua Institute.