REBECCA LI

Born in Hong Kong, Rebecca Li inhabits a musical life that moves fluidly between classical tradition and contemporary creation. Equally at home in concert halls, experimental spaces, and recording studios, she weaves the sonorities of the cello through classical, jazz, rock, folk, and pop—treating the instrument as both voice and storyteller.

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Her artistry is rooted in rigorous training at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and refined in France at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Conservatoire de Bordeaux Jacques Thibaud, where she studied with Etienne Péclard. This cosmopolitan education informs a playing style that is at once disciplined and instinctive, allowing her to move between written score and improvisation with ease.

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Rebecca is a vivid presence in Hong Kong's musical landscape, performing with ensembles such as Ensemble Transience, Hong Kong Contemporary Music Group, and Hong Kong City Pop Orchestra. Her performances have featured at major platforms including the New Vision Arts Festival, World Cultures Festival, Freespace Jazz Festival, Freespace Happening, Political Mother with Hofesh Shechter Company, and the international tours of Hong Kong Episodes, where music, movement, and cityscape meet on stage.

 

She has shared the stage with many top-tier artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo, Koji Tamaki, Becca Stevens, Coco Lee, Gigi Leung, Ronald Cheng, Sam Hui, Sammi Cheng, Gareth T, Kiri T, Moon Tang, Serrini and Terence Lam.

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Sought after as a studio session cellist, she lends her sound to film scores, artist albums, commercials, and site-specific events for brands including Audi, Alcatel, Helena Rubinstein, La Mer, Louis Vuitton, IFC mall, and K11 Musea.

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As a dedicated cello teacher, Rebecca works with the next generation of players, attentive to the individuality of each student while passing on the craft that shaped her own path. Whether on stage, in the studio, or in the teaching room, she approaches music as a continual conversation—between genres, cities, and the many people her cello has brought into her orbit.