Basma Abdel-Rahim was born in Cairo to a family of musicians (of three generations) and began violin lessons at the age of 6 at the Children´s School of the Cairo Conservatoire where she later graduated with honors in 1982. She then furthered her post-graduate studies at the Frankfurt Academy of Music with E. Pienemann and S. Karoly in a DAAD scholarship. In the same period, she attended masterclasses in London with Y. Neaman. In 1987 she obtained her diploma in Frankfurt. Since 1988 she is first violinist of the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra. She continued her professional studies in the United States in 1991 in a Fullbright grant, and between 1994 and 1996 specialized in baroque studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel (Switzerland).
She made several appearances and recordings, as a soloist and as member of chamber music ensembles, in Cairo and many other cities in Europe, USA and the Middle East. She has succesfully premiered contemporary works, written for, and dedicated to her. She is also a member of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble conducted by Th. Hengelbrock, performing with historical instruments.
- Biographic notes taken from the programme of the Arab Perspectives Music Festival 2009.
She made several appearances and recordings, as a soloist and as member of chamber music ensembles, in Cairo and many other cities in Europe, USA and the Middle East. She has succesfully premiered contemporary works, written for, and dedicated to her. She is also a member of the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble conducted by Th. Hengelbrock, performing with historical instruments.
- Biographic notes taken from the programme of the Arab Perspectives Music Festival 2009.
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