| Sophia Rahman studied at
the Yehudi Menuhin School with Peter Norris and Louis Kentner. After
taking a first class honours degree in English at King's College London,
she completed her studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Alexander
Kelly and Malcolm Martineau. She was elected an associate of the RAM
in 1997. Since winning the Royal Overseas League Competition's Accompanist
Award and the Liza Fuchsova Memorial Prize for a chamber music pianist
in consecutive years, her work has encompassed a wide range of solo
and chamber activities.A founder member of the acclaimed
Plane-Dukes-Rahman Trio (clarinet, viola, piano), currently Artists-in-Residence
at Queen's University, Belfast, Sophia also acts as an official accompanist
for organisations such as the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition
and the Barbirolli International Oboe Competition. She has appeared
with the chamber ensembles of the English Chamber Orchestra, Northern
Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, and with the Soloists of the Royal
Opera House. |
| She is also a member of the Pirasti Piano Trio and a chamber
music coach at the Lilla Akademien, Stockholm.As a concerto soloist Sophia
has toured with the Scottish Ensemble, in works by Mozart and Shostakovich
and she has played at all the London recital halls as well as many across
Europe, including the Concertgebouw, Koelner Philharmonie and Musikverein,
Wien. Further afield, tours have taken her to South America, the Indian
subcontinent and Japan.Sophia has many broadcasts
to her credit, including performances for BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, All-India,
Estonian, Netherlands and Portuguese Radio and for BBC, Japanese and
Turkish television: she played and presented a Debussy Prelude as part
of a BBC TV children's education series. Several chamber music discs
for ASV, Naxos and Dutton feature Sophia and she is soloist on a recording
of Shostakovich's first piano concerto with the Scottish Ensemble for
Linn records. |
Sophia Rahman