1. Zoe Rahman was born on 20 January 1971 and is an English jazz composer and pianist.
16 Facts About Zoe Rahman
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Zoe Rahman's mother was a doctor who grew up in New Zealand.
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Zoe Rahman describes her childhood as being "completely English" and has described herself as culturally "very English".
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Zoe Rahman started off playing classical piano when she was about four years old.
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Zoe Rahman had jazz piano lessons with various teachers and found opportunities to gig with other musicians.
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Zoe Rahman studied classical piano at the Royal Academy of Music, received a music degree at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford, and won a scholarship to study jazz performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she had lessons with pianist Joanne Brackeen.
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In 2002, Zoe Rahman discovered Bengali music, when her father was hospitalised and she had transferred some of his cassette tapes of 1950s Bengali music to CDs for him to listen to while he recuperated.
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Zoe Rahman became intrigued by the sounds and subsequent trips to Bangladesh allowed Zoe Rahman to learn about her background through music.
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Zoe Rahman has been the featured artist on radio and television programmes such as Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, BBC London's Now's the Time, Andrea Oliver's The Selector, Northern Broadcasting Internet Radio, Resonance FM and Julian Joseph's Jazz series for Meridian Television.
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Zoe Rahman has performed live on the BBC World Service and on BBC Radio 3's In Tune.
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Zoe Rahman was sought out by music producer Paul Vlcek to play with George Mraz.
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Zoe Rahman composed the piano score for the 2020 touring production of The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel.
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Zoe Rahman has toured extensively throughout the UK and internationally, including North Sea Jazz Festival, Molde Jazz Festival, Palermo Jazz Festival, Algeria's European Cultural Festival, Cork Jazz Festival, Estonia's Nargen Festival, Barbados Jazz Festival and Rochester International Jazz Festival.
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From 2009 to 2012, Zoe Rahman toured with Jerry Dammers' The Spatial AKA Orchestra, bringing Sun Ra to a new audience.
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Zoe Rahman worked with bands led by bassist Danny Thompson, exploring the legacy of songwriter Nick Drake; singer Martha Wainwright; and saxophonist Courtney Pine.
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Zoe Rahman has been described in The Observer as "one of the finest young pianists in Europe" and "a remarkable pianist by any standard".