Rebecca Cohen is a Welsh collaborative pianist and educator, whose insight and performances have been described by BBC Radio 3 as “Stylish, palpable and supportive… and a joy to absorb.”

Specialising in song repertoire, she has performed across the UK and Europe partnering leading artists including Joan Rodgers CBE, Benedict Nelson, James Newby and Claire Barnett-Jones, appearing at prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, the National Concert Hall Dublin, and Mozarthaus Vienna.

Recent highlights include a programme celebrating Charles Stanford’s legacy as part of the Belfast International Festival of Chamber Music broadcast on BBC Radio 3, the world premiere of a BBC Radio 3 commission by composer Ella Jarman-Pinto for International Women’s Day with soprano Nazan Fikret, and recitals in Leeds (Leeds International Concert Series) and Drogheda (Drogheda Classical Music), broadcast on RTÉ Lyric FM. In the 2025/26 season, Rebecca returns to Wigmore Hall for a recital with Claire Barnett-Jones in a programme exploring Alma Mahler’s circle, including songs by Zemlinsky, Korngold, Strauss, Berg, Lehrer, and Gustav and Alma Mahler.

Alongside her performance work she is committed to education and is currently a member of professorial staff at the Guildhall School, as well as at Junior Trinity Laban where she teaches and leads piano performance classes. She is regularly engaged as an adjudicator and External Examiner, including at the Royal College of Music, London and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and has delivered workshops and masterclasses for organisations including EPTA and Wigmore Hall Learning.

For several years, Rebecca co-directed Song in the City, an initiative dedicated to promoting classical song as an art form through audience development, new commissions, and socially engaged projects. This included devising and co-directing Creative Minds in Song, a collaborative project for postgraduate singers, pianists, and composers at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, developed with the charity MIND, and culminating in world-premiere performances at Milton Court, Barbican Centre.

With a strong interest in professional development and research, Rebecca served as Executive Producer and member of the Innovative Conservatoire (ICON) until 2016; an international network of over 25 Conservatoires and 250 Conservatoire teachers worldwide, with a mission to share, innovate, and renew teaching practices in conservatoires globally. She holds a PGCert in Performance Teaching in Higher Education, a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA) in 2015.

Educated at the University of York, she completed her studies in collaborative piano at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and later at the Franz Schubert Institut, Austria. Competition successes include the Das Lied International Song Competition (Finalist), the Lillian Ash French Song Prize and the Paul Hamburger Prize for Accompaniment awarded by Graham Johnson as part of his prestigious Song Guild.

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