About

From age 3 Rebekah wanted to play violin, but her mother couldn’t find anyone willing to teach a child so young. She began at 4, and at 8 remembers crying when first hearing a vinyl record of Beethoven’s Spring Sonata. When asked why she was upset, she replied, “It’s just so beautiful.”

Beauty moves us. Rebekah’s sound has been described by listeners as “otherworldly”, “simmering” and “painstakingly beautiful”, and that it “suspends in the air”.

Whether composed or expressed live through her voice, piano or violin, Rebekah’s sound is synergistic and makes way for itself. Her music is “dreamy, beautiful and powerful. I love how her voice and violin intertwine.” (Sharon, USA)

Australian born, Rebekah resides in Northern California, USA. She has played and sung crossing genres from ballet, opera and symphony to folk, jazz, gypsy, worship bands, live television and radio, and film. Rebekah has performed in the Beijing Concert Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Sydney Opera House and the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, TN. She is most at home creating off the printed page, in live acoustic settings, collaborating with artists and art forms, and making music with children.

EXTENDED BIO:

Rebekah van Tinteren is a violinist, singer/songwriter, composer and music educator. As a violinist she has performed professionally in genres ranging from classical (symphony, ballet, opera, musicals) to gypsy, cabaret and folk, and played in concerts, workshops and arts festivals. Rebekah has toured Australia, China, the South Pacific and Germany with ensembles and recorded for live radio, television and film (Paramount Pictures) with the Adelaide Symphony and Adelaide Art Orchestras. She has run her own music studio for children from early childhood (for babies and parents) through to university level violin students.

Rebekah has played with solo artists and bands including Josh Groban, K.D. Lang, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, and in the US with Thin Places Band (supporting Songs of Water and Josh Garrels), Amy Grant and Celtic Woman. She has toured and recorded with Bethel Music as well as Jeremy Riddle, Brooke Ligertwood, Francesca Batistelli, Martin Smith and Tiffany Hudson. For over 10 years she tutored at Bethel Music Worship School, and plays with North State Symphony.

Since she was 12, Rebekah has played and sung with worship bands. She has conducted choirs, and been a worship pastor. She enjoys ministering at workshops, in churches and at prayer gatherings. Her favorite musical moments have always involved making music with others, often in impromptu settings such as: singing on Uluru, playing to prisoners in Uganda and to children in a dump in the Philippines. Her great loves are her family and playing and singing in live, spontaneous worship settings.

Rebekah began writing and recording her own music beginning with the song "Child" (2011) followed by a mix of instrumentals and songs "This, Your Song" (2013), "Rather Have You Wild" (2016), “Being.” (2022) and “Notes to Nurture” (2023). 2025 brings the release of more personal songs, several cinematic re-works and the release of her long awaited “Notes to Nurture - Live at Pilgrim” experience captured for YouTube.

Rebekah studied Violin Performance at Elder Conservatorium (Adelaide University, AUS) and in Basel, Switzerland. She also holds a Bachelor of Teaching (Flinders University) majoring in Music as well as an Advanced Diploma of Suzuki Education (AUS).