Professional Percussionist

Rebecca Kite is a mallet percussion specialist with extensive experience in contemporary chamber music, orchestral percussion, and timpani. She is a member of the DC Chapter American Federation of Musicians, Local 161-710.

Interested in: chamber music projects, premieres with prominent mallet percussion parts.

Selected Local Performing Experience:

The Washington Chorus, Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, Cathedral Choral Society, Signature Theater, National Theater, Millennium Stage, Baltimore Opera.

Additional Performing Experience:

Minnesota Opera Orchestra (8 years), Plymouth Music Series Orchestra (9 years), Studio recording sessions Kjos music, Dale Warland Chorale, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Columbus Pro-Musica Orchestra, National Symphony of Nicaragua.

Recording experience: Studio recording sessions Music Publishing companies, solo marimba CDs, commercials, contemporary music projects, Broadway cast album.

Selected Conductors:

George Manahan, Richard Buckley, Hugh Wolf, Dale Warland, Phillip Brunelle, Lukas Foss, Nicholas McGegan, Julian Wachner, Sylvia Alimena, Ray Cramer, William Eddins, Henry Mancini.

Selected Discography:

Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra, Garrison Keillor and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

Hello Dolly, 1994 Cast Album

Rainbow Path, Kay Gardner