Rebecca Dale
Born in 1985, Rebecca started composing from a very young age, completing her first full musical at the age of 10 and piano concerto at 15. She studied at Oxford University (New College) and the National Film and Television School. Her work first came to public attention when BBC Radio 3 premiered her choral symphony When Music Sounds in 2014. The following year she enjoyed success with I’ll Sing and in 2016 her orchestral work Soay was featured on the chart-topping Decca album, The Lost Songs of St Kilda. Dale’s track, “Winter”, commissioned by vocal group Voces8 for their album of the same name, was described by Gramophone Magazine as a “masterpiece” and Classic FM described Dale as “a household name in years to come”.

A fellow of the famous Sundance Composers Lab and alumna of the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Hollywood, Dale writes extensively for film and TV. She has worked on a variety of big screen projects including Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, director Stephen Frears’ The Program, action film The Take starring Idris Elba, and Disney’s Queen of Katwe, while her score to Crossing The Line was nominated for Best Original Music In Feature Film at the 2017 international Music+Sound Awards. Most recently, she contributed to BBC One’s three-part adaption of Little Women, starring Angela Lansbury, Michael Gambon, and Emily Watson.

As a concert composer, Dale has written for numerous artists and ensembles including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Scottish Festival Orchestra, and the London Mozart Players. She is a fellow of the prestigious Macdowell Colony in New Hampshire (alumni include Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland), and has been an associate composer with the London Symphony Orchestra on its Soundhub programme. Dale has recently been commissioned by Canterbury Cathedral Girls' Choir and is 2017-18 Composer in Residence for the London Oriana Choir as part of its five15 project.

With so many exciting opportunities ahead, Rebecca Dale is positioned at the forefront of a new generation of composers, and her partnership with Decca Classics and Decca Publishing promises to give her a new platform to develop in her remarkable career.