A native of Pennsylvania, mezzo-soprano Barbara Rearick studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in Suffolk, England. Her repertoire embraces opera, oratorio, lieder, and popular American song. She made her English debut at the 1987 Aldeburgh Festival and her Carnegie Hall debut in Handel’s Messiah in 1993. She has given recitals with composer-pianist Sir Richard Rodney Bennett throughout Great Britain and the United States, and she has also sung with the Britten-Pears Ensemble.