Regularly acclaimed by the international specialized press, Rebeca Oliveira is a Portuguese classical guitarist.
As Bradford Werner stated:
“I really appreciate her solid performances filled with great technique, rhytmic drive and refined musicality. Her phrasing is so nicely balanced and well delivered.”
In December 2021, Rebeca Oliveira released “Carlos Seixas – Sonatas”, an album where she recorded her own transcription of the Portuguese composer’s sonatas. This album is the result of the interest in the music of Portuguese baroque composer Carlos Seixas (1704-1742) that led her to start in 2017 the cycle “Carlos Seixas for guitar”, a series of transcriptions for classical guitar of this composer’s sonatas. In this context she released the scores of her transcriptions in the Canadian publishing house Les Productions D’Oz.
In October 2020 Rebeca released her first album “Home”, a tribute to her native Madeira Island.
Rebeca began her musical studies at age fifteen, at the Conservatory – Professional School of Arts of Madeira, with Pedro Zamora. In July 2017, she completed her studies in classical guitar, with honours, at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Vigo, Galicia, in the class of Margarita Escarpa. In the same year, she started her Master degree in performance, with specialization in chamber music, at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, in Germany, with the renowned professor Thomas Müller-Pering, finishing her studies with the highest distinction.
She has won numerous awards in national and international competitions, as well as scholarships and artistic creation grants. Highlights include the Eurostrings scholarship to the Tallin Guitar Festival, the STIBET I des DAAD, from the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Charlotte-Krupp – Neue Liszt Stiftung and the Kulturstiftung der Freistaat Thüringen.
She regularly performs solo and in various chamber music formations across Europe. She is currently teaching at the Musikschule Heinrich Schütz Gera, Germany.
She plays with a guitar by German luthier Dieter Müller, uses Guitarlift and is an Augustine Strings artist.