Rebekah Efthimiou

Rebekah Efthimiou earned her Bachelors of Music in Harp Performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of Yolanda Kondonassis. She is a winner of the Oberlin Conservatory Concerto Competition and has participated as an orchestral and chamber musician in numerous summer festivals and concert series including the Round Top Summer Institute, Saratoga Harp Colony, and Oberlin’s “Music at Oakton” concert series in the Washington D.C. area. At Oberlin, Ms. Efthimiou performed for two years as principal harpist for the Contemporary Music Ensemble and as rotating principal with the Oberlin Orchestras, joining both groups in premieres and recording projects including the world premier of Lorenzo Palomo’s “The Sneetches” and the Oberlin Music Label’s recently released, “A place toward other places”. In January 2013, she performed in New York City as part of Oberlin’s Illumination Tour, appearing at Carnegie Hall and alongside the International Contemporary Ensemble at the DiMenna Center. Ms. Efthimiou began her harp studies with Karlinda Caldicott and received her high school diploma from the Interlochen Arts Academy where she was a student of Joan Holland. She is a native of Upstate New York and will begin her graduate studies this fall at the Cleveland Institute of Music.