Rebeca Oliveira is a classical guitarist from Madeira Island, Portugal. She began guitar studies at fifteen at the Conservatório Escola Profissional das Artes da Madeira under Pedro Zamora, completing her secondary studies with the highest grade in 2013. In 2017 she completed her Bachelor’s degree with distinction at the Conservatório Superior de Música de Vigo, Spain, under Margarita Escarpa, and since 2017 has studied for a Master’s in Performance and Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Germany, under Prof. Thomas Müller-Pering. She has taken more than thirty masterclasses with guitarists including David Russell, Marcin Dylla and Roberto Aussel, and won first prizes at the Concurso Internacional de Guitarra de Ourém e Fátima (2016), the “Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga” competition (Bilbao, 2017) and the I Concurso Internacional de Guitarra de Vila Nova de Cerveira (2017).

Oliveira has also worked as an arranger, publishing a transcription of Carlos Seixas’s Sonatas 23 and 24 for classical guitar with Les Productions d’Oz, extending the Portuguese Baroque keyboard repertoire onto the instrument.

Sources:

• https://es.rebecaoliveira.com/biography