Rebecca Folsom, mezzo-soprano, has performed with the Fort Worth Opera, Utah Festival Opera, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. She has performed as a soloist with numerous ensembles in works such as Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem, and Bernstein’s Songfest. Competition credits include the Naftzger Young Artist Award and a fellowship to the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan.

Folsom’s students have sung in such opera houses and festivals as Santa Fe, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Arizona Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Los Angeles Opera, Tanglewood, Central City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Portland Opera, and internationally at Israeli Opera, Darmstadt Opera, and theaters in Italy and Berlin. Her students have won or been finalists in competitions such as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Richard Tucker Award, the Oratorio Society of New York Competition, the William Matheus Sullivan awards, and the Liederkranz Foundation competition. 

Folsom served as staff voice teacher for the young artists programs of the Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Israeli Opera, Seagle Music Colony, Flagstaff in Fidenza, and Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and has taught master classes both nationally and internationally, including appearances at the Hans de Roo International Conference for Young Artist Programs in Amsterdam. 

Her publishing credits include articles in the NATS Journal of Singing, Journal of the Society for American Music, OPERA America's online journal, and the Chinese Journal for Music Education. She has presented papers for the Society for American Music Annual Conference and the College Music Society. 

Folsom received her D.M.A. and M.M. in voice performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She maintains private studios in Boston and New York City.