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