With a background that combines extensive instrumental and choral skills with a love of music education and history, Rebecca Johnson has worn numerous musical hats during her career. Her performance ensembles include the Metropolitan Chorale of Kansas City, Sacred Arts Chorale, and Vox Luminis. Groups under Dr. Johnson’s baton have performed in England, Brazil, and across the United States.
Recently retired as coordinator of music at Metropolitan Community College Blue River and director of sacred arts for Central Theological Seminary, Johnson holds a Doctor of Music from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Colorado.
In addition to teaching and performing, Johnson is a frequent lecturer. Locally, Johnson has loved providing Pre-Opera Talks and Opera Dives Deep lectures for Lyric Opera of Kansas City for over ten years. Abroad, her favorite lectures have included “Sacred Music in America” in South Korea and “The Music of Louis Armstrong” to high school students in Yangon, Myanmar.
