BIOGRAPHY




Sara Rahman
sarahourahmane@gmail.com
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Sara Rahman (full-name Sarah Ourahmane) is a British-Algerian interdisciplinary composer, musician and researcher who classically trained in cello and voice. She graduated in 2022 from the Superior Music Conservatory of Catalunya (ESMUC) with a Masters in Film Composition.

Sara works with voice, electronics, field recordings, found audio, and smaller ensembles as well as large group compositions. She has received commissions from the BBC, Delfina Foundation, Sculpture International Rotterdam, and Sound and Music, to create works for radio and composition alongside releasing on 3024.

Her work also leans towards soundtrack for film and curating a bimonthly residency on stegi.radio which invites new and exciting artists from the Arab and African diaspora to partake in the idea that ‘music forges communities.’

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Education
Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies with Arabic with Distinction; University of Exeter 2020 

Master of Science in Social and Cultural Anthropology with Distinction; University College of London 2021 

Master in Composition for Film and Visual Media; Superior Music Conservatory of Catalunya 

Awards 
2018/19/20 HRH Prince Al-Waleed Award to conduct fieldwork across Algeria looking into the intersection between folklore, ritual and worship, collecting stories and narratives via sound and field recordings

2022 Francis Chagrin Award to support early-career musicians and composers in their artistic practise

2024 Thrive Trinity Laban Development Programme

2025 Developing Your Creative Practise - Arts Council UK Grant 

Residencies 
2022 First Artist Management Mentorship Program

2022 Modern Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona, Research Residency entitled 'Sound and Space' looking at the intersection between key 1980s architectural Niemeyer commissions across Algeria and the politics of space and structuralism within the context of 1990s Algeria and also the youth

2023-6 Bimonthly music residency on stegi.radio 

2023 Residency at Heritage Quay commissioned by Sound and Music and the British Music Collection

2024 Participating artist in the Thrive Development 6-month programme at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London

2024-5 Bow Arts 6-month residency in Central London 

2025 ArtsAdmin residency at Toynbee Studios, Whitechapel London


Film Scores 
To Have a Lover by Narah T. Coelt short film, original soundtrack written in collaboration with Ankit Suri 

T.V by Kyle Adams short film, original soundtrack composer

Quiet Hands by Scar Ward short film, original soundtrack composer
Exhibitions and performances
Tentacular Bed 
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
OGR, Turin
2025

Per Voce
Lydia Ourahmane,
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
2025

Terra Invisus Ensemble 
Collaboration Performance, 
London, 
2025 

Sarah Ourahmane, 
Peckham Audio 
Performance 
London, 
2025

you go, once before
Forma Arts Media,
London,
2024

you go, once before
Heritage Quay,
University of Huddersfield,
2023



Releases / Discography 
Swill by Molly Meet featuring Sarah Ourahmane released on 3024

Recording Cellist on Wu-Lu album Learning To Swim On Empty                 



MUSIC/COMPOSITION






Per Voce 
for STT voices



Music composition in braille for Lydia Ourahmane
Per Voce (2025) exhibition commissioned by the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT

Per Voce is a new commission by Lydia Ourahmane made in collaboration with her sister Sarah Ourahmane, a composer and musician. A composition written for 3 visually impaired singers unfolds across two rooms of the museum. Barely visible but perceptible to the touch, the score is embedded into the walls of each room to remain permanently open to future activations.




Tentacular Bed 


for Amphithrite Lyre and Voice


Raffaela Naldi Rossano’s dramaturgy of Tentacular Bed
premiered at OGR, Torino 
September 2025




Sol de Nit 
for Symphony Orchestra


recorded at the Slovak Radio Station in 2021








you go, 
once before
for four cellos



Exhibited at Forma Arts Media, London as part of the ‘don’t worry I won’t forget you’ exhibition curated by Evar Husseyni and Sarah Hamed. Commissioned by the British Music Collection and Sound and Music, acquired by the Univeristy of Huddersfield, Heritage Quay


Written for an ensemble of four cellos and voice, combining field recordings recorded in the surrounding Huddersfield areas. When exploring the collections at Heritage Quay, I was drawn to different pieces or documents for different reasons. The composition ‘Peace on Earth to Men’ by Phyllis Tate reminded me that no composition is ever created in abstraction and that as seekers we draw from our surroundings as inspiration in our writing. Meanwhile, in the personal correspondence of Panufnik and Bernard Jacobson, Panufnik wrote on how the composer’s task is always to be a searcher; to search for new forms and new musical language.




Mother Prays, Father Weeps 


This audio piece was originally commissioned by Delfina Foundation from Lydia and Sarah Ourahmane for the May 2021 edition of the monthly The Delfina Sessions slot on Radio Alhara, as part of the station’s Sonic Liberation Front. Following its broadcast on Tuesday 18 May 2021 the sisters re-edited the work and gave permission for it to be made permanently available on the Delfina Platform as part of the May 2021 edition of our Family Lunch: Home Delivery.


un excersisi obert
for three cellos


performance at Modern Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona as part of 108 days March 2024


Interjections on the Future 
featuring Isabel Valli, Madeline Stack and Fer Boyd  



Radio piece commissioned by Short Cuts & Falling Trees Productions, aired on BBC Radio 4 February 13, 2024



The Lesser Gods of the Sea

radio story commission on illegal immmigration from Algeria to Spain, interviewing Khalil who tells us his journey, airted on Sculpture International Rotterdam and Radio Paleis Maashaven