Concerts:

October 2nd, 7:30pm, Menuhin Hall

Tertis and Aronowitz Competition Winners Concert

Xunyu Zhou – viola

Sam Rosenthal – viola

Sophia Rahman -piano


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October 3rd, 1pm, Wigmore Hall

Tertis and Aronowitz Competition Winners Concert

Xunyu Zhou – viola

Sam Rosenthal – viola

Sophia Rahman -piano


Bridge, Bowen, Bax

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Known for her ‘supreme chamber-musical responsiveness’ (The Arts Desk), pianist Sophia Rahman is a renowned chamber musician, sought-after mentor and innovative Artistic Director. Since 2020 Sophia has directed Whittington Festival in Shropshire, where she has worked with distinguished singers Mark Padmore and Roderick Williams and mentored some of the brightest emerging instrumental and vocal talents. As a long-time champion of underrepresented composers, Sophia made the first UK recording of Florence Price’s piano concerto, for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She has made several discs of the work of female composers such as Rebecca Clarke and Dorothy Howell, her recordings of Howell’s works featuring in several episodes of BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week.

Sophia played harpsichord in Chamber Domaine’s Brandenburg Project at Deal Festival in 2024, a three-concert series repeated at the Wigmore Hall in June 2025. Sophia has toured extensively, appearing at top festivals like Gstaad, IMS Prussia Cove and Kuhmo, and has collaborated with world-class musicians including Klaus Mäkelä, Augustin Hadelich and Steven Isserlis.

Sophia has played for Steven Isserlis’ class at IMS Prussia Cove since 2011, where she has also worked with violists Atar Arad, Kim Kashkashian, Thomas Riebl, Hartmut Rohde and cellist Steven Doane. Her interest in this work originated as a class pianist for the legendary cellist and teacher William Pleeth at the Britten-Pears School. After attending the Yehudi Menuhin School, Sophia took a first-class honours degree in English from King’s College, London, completing postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music and winning the Royal Overseas League’s collaborative and chamber music piano awards in consecutive years.

‘the best Bartok Contrasts I ever expect to hear’

David Nice in I’ll Think of Something Later