Coordinator of Music
rebecca.lanning@maconstate.edu

Rapidly gaining notoriety as a soloist, Rebecca Lanning is noted for her rich, distinctive sound. She has performed in recital, opera, and oratorio throughout the U.S. and in France. She was named the 2004-2005 Young Artist of the Year by the Gretchen Benche Endowed Recital Series. In 2002, she was a national semi-finalist in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Auditions, where she received the Irvin Bushman Award. Recent appearances include the Ocala Symphony, Valdosta Symphony, Albany Symphony, Cobb Symphony, Macon Symphony, the Birmingham Museum of Modern Art, and the Emerging Artists Series at Kennesaw State University. Devoted to modern music, she presented the world premiere of McNair’s newly orchestrated Judas Wind with the Macon Symphony Orchestra and the Georgia premier of Einhorn’s The Spires, The City, The Field with the Albany Symphony Orchestra. As a member of Robert Shaw’s Chamber Singers and Festival Singers, she has performed several times at Carnegie Hall.

A versatile musician, Ms. Lanning received degrees in Voice and continued with graduate studies in Music History at Ohio University where she studied with Ira Zook, Margaret Stephenson and Richard Wetzel. She received her operatic training from Metropolitan Opera baritone, Edward Thomas Payne.

Ms. Lanning is the leading scholar of American composer, Kathleen Lockhart Manning. For her research of Ms. Manning, she received the John Houk Research Grant. She received a commission in 2003 to write program notes for Jane Foster’s CD, “To the Mart of Dreams: The Songs of Kathleen Lockhart Manning.”

An active choral conductor, Ms. Lanning has presented choral master classes and clinics throughout Georgia. She was music director/conductor of the Macon Civic Chorale from 1994-2001. She is currently Head of the Music Department and director of the Chamber Singers at Macon State College.