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Sophia Rahman has recorded over twenty chamber discs for companies including Naxos, ASV, Dutton/Epoch, Meridian, Linn Records, and Guild, among others. Her career encompasses solo, chamber and coaching activities. She acts as an official accompanist for the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the Barbirolli International Oboe Competition and IMS/Prussia Cove. She has given master-classes in China at the Conservatory of Music in Xi An and the Xing Hai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou, in Russia at the Modest Mussorgsky College in St Petersburg, in Sweden at Lilla Akadamien, Stockholm, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Peter Norris and Louis Kentner, took a first-class honours degree in English from King’s College, London, and completed her piano studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Alexander Kelly and Malcolm Martineau. She was the winner of the Royal Overseas League’s Accompanist Award and the Liza Fuchsova Award for a chamber music pianist in consecutive years.