Rebecca Epperson, from Layton, Utah, joined the National Symphony Orchestra in September 2022. She was a member of Symphony in C (formerly the Haddonfield Symphony) from 2016–2020, and has performed with the Houston Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra. She has appeared as a soloist with the Utah Symphony and has participated in many festivals including Music Academy of the West, the New York String Orchestra Seminar, Pacific Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Center. As a chamber musician, she has received mentorship from members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Cleveland, and Takács string quartets, and enjoys performing chamber works with her colleagues in the NSO.

Epperson received her bachelor of music from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Roberto Díaz and Ed Gazouleas, and served as co-principal of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. She holds a master of music degree from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she studied with James Dunham. Her childhood teachers were Elizabeth Kuefler Wallace, Karen Child, and her mother, Janet Epperson, to whom Epperson owes her love of music.