New York based soprano Rachel Brook enjoys a varied singing career, with recent credits as Miriam in the world premiere of The Poet Warriors as part of the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival, Female Voice in the premiere reading of Adam Tendlerʼs Schlüsslieder at Dixon Place, and Maria in West Side Story with Rockville Musical Theatre. As Maria, Rachel earned a WATCH Award nomination as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and recognition by critic Joel Markowitz of DC Theatre Scene, who stated that Rachel was “the best Maria I have ever heard sing that role”.

After receiving her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, Rachel spent a season as a company member with Beechwood Theater Company in Newport, Rhode Island. There she specialized in Victorian theatre and improv comedy (which go together surprisingly well) as well as performing monthly classical recitals as part of the Beechwood Concert Series. Rachel then went on to complete her Master of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy at Westminster Choir College, where she studied with Laura Brooks Rice and was the recipient of the Elsie Hilliard Hillman Vocal Scholarship. While at Westminster Rachel performed two leading roles with Westminster Opera Theatre, first as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro (a role she repeated with Palmetto Opera in Columbia, South Carolina) and then as the title role in Gustav Holst's little-known chamber opera Savitri, conducted by Daniel Beckwith. Other favorite roles include Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) with the Philharmonic and Operatic Society of Bourgas, Bulgaria, and Musetta (La Boheme) with Amalfi Coast Music Festival.

A passionate supporter of Jewish music and composers, Rachel was the Cantorial Soloist at Temple Beth Ami in Rockville, Maryland for two years where she also conducted the resident choral group, Shir Ami, as well as the youth choir, Chai Ami. Rachel now sings with the famed Zamir Chorale, is a member of the Kirtan Rabbi "posse",  is Assistant Conductor, to Hazzan Natasha Hirschhorn, of Shir Chadash, and recently collaborated with pianist JJ Penna and mezzo-soprano Robyn Martinez on a concert of Ladino, Yiddish, Hebrew, and American songs celebrating the diversity of Jewish heritage both past and present.