Lessonface Presents: Rebecca Foon

Lessonface presents Rebecca Foon, a live-streamed event where the musical artist will discuss her sources of inspiration and motivation, and share the approaches to learning and practice that have helped her attain her skills. The events are streamed, recorded, and totally free to watch live or re-watch later. Sign up on this page to send your questions or comments for Foon ahead of time, and to get access to the event recordings.

Rebecca Foon, also credited as Beckie Foon, is a Canadian cellist, vocalist, and composer from Montreal, Quebec. Foon currently records under the alias Saltland and is a member and co-founder of the Juno Award-winning modern chamber ensemble Esmerine. She is one of the founders of Pathway to Paris, a nonprofit organization dedicated to turning the Paris Agreement into reality through finding and offering innovative and ambitious solutions for combating global climate change. She has also been a member of several groups associated with the post rock, experimental and chamber music scene of Montreal and New York City, including Set Fire to Flames, A Silver Mt. Zion, Colin Stetson’s Gorecki Symphony of Sorrow ensemble and the instrumental string/piano/accordion-based trio Fifths of Seven. Esmerine's Turkish folk influenced album Dalmak, released in 2013, was awarded the Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year in 2014. In 2013 she released her first Saltland album, which Exclaim.ca called "a captivating combination of genres from dream pop to chamber music to ambient and shoegaze."[1]