Rebecca Vanover, High School R & R Chair

A native of Gaithersburg, MD, Becca is a soprano and the Director of Choirs at Centennial High School where she leads 5 performance ensembles. She is also the vocal music director at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Fulton, MD. HRecently she completed a M.Ed in Educational Leadership and Policy from Boston College. Prior to her graduate studies, she earned a BM in Voice and a BME in Choral Music Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. During her time at UMD, she performed regularly with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and the Baltimore Symphony at the Meyerhoff and Strathmore as a member of the UMD Chamber Singers. In 2014, she traveled to Seoul to represent the United States at the 10th World Symposium of Choral Music, sharing repertoire with some of the world's best ensembles. In addition to her love of choral music, Rebecca thoroughly enjoys opera and musical theater, and has performed both genres locally in D.C./MD area. She's performed in "Show Boat", "Beauty and the Beast", and "Joseph" at Toby's of Columbia. When she's not immersed in music, Rebecca can be found baking macarons and doing crossword puzzles.