Isabella Rahme : Associate Artist
Photo: Chloe Wells
Isabella Rahme is an emerging composer, harpist and vocalist
living and making music on Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). Her
practice as a musician includes writing for choirs and ensembles,
creating sound art and installations, and improvising on her
electroacoustic harp.
Recent ensembles she has worked with include Ensemble Offspring
(Hatched Academy 2023), Trio Immersio (ICEBERG Institute 2023),
and JACK Quartet (JACK Studio 2021). Her electroacoustic works
have been broadcast as part of radio and sound art festival
Radiophrenia (2020 & 2022), and her music and sound design for
animation short "After Hours" was shown at the Annecy film
festival (2021).
She was commissioned to create her first interactive installation
in 2022 for Backstage Music's "Clarity Engine", and recently
presented a new installation for The Music Box Project's festival
"CUT PASTE PLAY" in March of 2024.
Isabella graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in
2022 with a Bachelor of Music (Composition), where she studied
under many esteemed Australian composers including Gerard Brophy,
Liza Lim, Damian Barbeler, & Daniel Rojas. She also developed her
electroacoustic composition practice by studying under Daniel
Blinkhorn and Alexis Weaver.
Biography provided by the composer — current to July 2024