Rebecca Tong
Conductor
The 2022/23 season will see Rebecca debut with the Orquestra Simfónica de Barcelona, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, London Philharmonic and Tonkünstler-Orchester at the Musikverein, and return to the Polish National Radio Symphony and Orchestre national Montpellier.
Since winning the First, ARTE and Orchestra Prizes at the inaugural La Maestra conducting competition in 2020, Rebecca has conducted the Orchestre de Paris, Tampere Philharmonic, Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto, Orchestre national de Lyon and Manchester Camerata among others. She has also assisted Karina Canellakis at the London Philharmonic and François-Xavier Roth at the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln.
Born in Indonesia, Rebecca Tong is Resident Conductor of Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra and Artistic Director and Music Director of Ensemble Kontemporer. She completed her two-year tenure as Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music and previously studied at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.