Rebekah Heller is thrilled to share her vision from the podium as a conductor of clear and emotionally charged performances. Informed by a robust career as a new music bassoonist, and long-held curatorial and decision-making roles in the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble, Heller’s leadership style is curious, collaborative and deeply engaging.

Heller’s depth of experience interpreting contemporary music, and building trust with composers, performers, and audiences alike, translates into an exciting new presence at the forefront of new music.

Alex Ross, in The New Yorker, wrote of her 2023 Park Avenue Armory concert featuring the music of George Lewis: “the International Contemporary Ensemble, under the direction of Rebekah Heller, lit into the 2013 piece Assemblage, …The ensemble had no trouble adopting (George) Lewis’s turn-on-a-dime energy, conveying a kind of happy exhaustion at the end.”
(see the full concert video below)

“Heller’s crisp direction, sans baton, guided the players through the score’s intricacies, marshaling their energetic reading,” wrote the South Florida Classical Review in response to her 2022 New World Symphony Debut.

Next up are conducting engagements at NYC’s Miller Theatre, The Peabody Institute, and the brand new Bloomberg Center in DC.