Zoe Rahman

Zoe Rahman (b. 1971) is an English jazz composer and pianist, sister of clarinetist/saxophonist Idris Rahman. Born in Chichester, West Sussex to a Bengali father and an English-Irish mother, she studied classical piano at the Royal Academy of Music, and earned a degree from St Hugh's College at the University of Oxford. Zoe Rahman continued her music education abroad, and took lessons with Joanne Brackeen after winning a scholarship to study jazz performance at Berklee College Of Music in Boston, USA.

Rahman released six albums, including a collaboration with Czech-American bassist George Mraz and his producer Paul Vlček, and two London concerts – trio with Gene Calderazzo and Oli Hayhurst at Pizza Express in April 2007, and a performance with Larry Stabbins/Stonephace at Fish Factory Willesden in Sept 2011. In 2006, her second album [r=2553245] was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize Album of the Year, and also won the Jazz Album of the Year at Parliamentary Jazz Awards. Zoe's fifth album, [r=5232765], won the Best Jazz Act award at the 2012 MOBO Awards.