Pianist Rebecca Luppe strives to share music that is honest and connective through her performances, teaching, coaching, and conversations with others, with a special affinity for collaborative work.  She is in the process of creating a series of original arrangements of Studio Ghibli’s famous movie themes for viola and piano, helped create and perform a new art song through an interdisciplinary collaboration with a singer, poet, and composer that was documented in the Spotify podcast “How It’s Musically Made,” and recently collaborated with composer Juan María Prieto to create solo piano pieces based on the writing of Rainer Maria Rilke. Communication is the core of her work - communicating with her collaborative partners and audiences with empathy, compassion, understanding, and joy.

With playing described by listeners as gracious, sensitive, and engaging, Rebecca has made music in a variety of collaborative settings. She sang and played with Indiana University’s internationally acclaimed new music choir, NOTUS, performed for two years with Reimagining Opera for Kids, a community education and engagement program that brings original children’s operas to public schools throughout southern Indiana, and accompanied violin and taught piano at Fairview Elementary in Bloomington. In the summer of 2018, she was invited to participate as a full-fellowship collaborative pianist for Prague Summer Nights, an opera festival in the Czech Republic, and in 2019, she received a full scholarship to work with the singers of Musiktheater Bavaria, a summer program in the Bavarian Alps. In summer of 2021, she was asked back to their Covid-abbreviated program, held in New York State. In May 2023 she was invited to participate in the Roger Vignoles workshop at Vanderbilt University, a fully-funded opportunity for young coaches to receive feedback on their coachings from celebrated performer and educator Roger Vignoles. 

Rebecca is also committed to social activism through music. She is an active member of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and recently organized a memorial for all lives lost to gun violence in Tennessee in 2022 that included music, poetry, and opportunities for the community to reflect and remember those who have died. In the realm of mental health activism, she was a speaker on the Jacobs School of Music’s panel, “Stop the Stigma: Health and Wellness in Music School” in 2021, where she discussed the toxic aspects of classical music school culture and its effects on her own health. It is one of her core values to support her students and fellow professional musicians, encouraging them to find ways to be a musician that are more compassionate and life-affirming.

Rebecca received her Master of Music in solo piano performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in 2020, studying with Norman Krieger, and her Performer Diploma in collaborative piano, vocal emphasis, with a full graduate assistantship in 2021. In January 2022, Rebecca began her position at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music as an Artist Instructor of Collaborative Piano, where she coaches voice majors, works with student instrumentalists, and plays with Blair's choral ensembles and opera productions.