RAHME, Isabella

Isabella Rahme is an emerging composer, harpist and vocalist living and making music on Bedigal 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 2023 with a Bachelor of Music (Composition), where she studied under many esteemed Australian composers including Gerard Brophy, Liza Lim, & Damian Barbeler. She also developed her electroacoustic composition practice by studying with Daniel Blinkhorn, Alexis Weaver, and Ben Carey.

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