Rebecca Askew is an experienced freelance performer, composer, vocal animateur, musical director and theatre maker with a background in jazz and improvised music; she studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. 
 
As both a soloist and an ensemble musician, she has performed at home and abroad, in venues large and small, including ​Shakespeare's Globe, the National Theatre and jazz clubs up and down the country.

As a composer and bandleader, she has toured her music to venues and festivals around the UK and abroad, including the Montreal Jazz Festival and the Linbury Theatre (Royal Opera House). She receives commissions for her work and has written and arranged many choral pieces.