Dr. Rebecca Ashe is a freelance musician and appears across the country as a performer, lecturer, and masterclass clinician. A new music performer and collaborator, she has partnered with several composers and has performed at several festivals, including Electronic Music Midwest (Resident Artist for 2010 Festival), Society of Composers, Inc., Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA), the New York City based Composers Voice Series, SPARK, SEAMUS and the Electroacoustic Juke Joint. She has been adjunct faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Georgetown College (Georgetown, TX), Park University (Parkville, MO.) and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Belton, TX.). She currently resides in Iowa City where she is the National Distribution Manager for Trevor James Flutes.

Rebecca has collaborated with numerous composers and has premiered several pieces, including MHCHAOS, by Christopher Biggs (SEAMUS 2009 Student Award Winner), Jorge Sosa’s Punto y Linea (recorded on Plastic Time, available at CD Baby), Daniel Eichenbaum’s Orbit, for flute, clarinet and electronic sounds, Mike McFerron’s electro-acoustic piece, Open Circuit, Lust, by Robert Voisey and most recently Dark Matter, by Toronto based composer Leslie Melcher.

Rebecca is a founding member of Dark Matter, a collaboration of composers, performers and scientists. It fuses cutting-edge technology with exceptional musical artistry. The result is an art form that blurs the boundaries between performance, education, and composition by blending them into a single event. They are based in Kansas City, Missouri, and are planning their first Midwestern tour in 2011 and 2012.

Rebecca earned her Bachelor degree in Applied Music (flute) at the Eastman School of Music, where her principal teacher was Bonita Boyd. She earned both Master of Musical Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Missouri -Kansas City, studying with Dr. Mary Posses. In 1998, she was the only American and one of four flutists worldwide to be chosen for Trevor Wye's prestigious one-year course in Kent, England. Other major teachers have included William Bennett and Karl Kraber.