Rakhi Singh is very much a violinist for the 21st Century, working well beyond the role of a traditional performer. Not only an expressive and virtuosic player, Singh’s musicality is expressed as an instrumentalist, a collaborator, a composer and creative director. She co-founded and co-directs Manchester Collective, an organisation that is leading the way in the future of classical music, she directs their concerts on stage in lieu of a conductor and is heavily involved in the programming and curation of their seasons.

She is always deeply committed to the riches of compositional talent coming through today with world premieres most months and performances across the globe, including their Proms debut in August 2021.

Aside from her work with the Collective where she’s led over 50 concerts between July 2021 and August 2022, she has also been performing live with virtuoso Jazz pianist Hiromi across Europe, a project that involved improvisation, and is the chosen violinist of Philip Glass for his Tao of Glass project. 

Singh released her first EP of original music in August 2021, composed and produced by her. On this record she also uses her voice alongside her as violin and viola. 

She collaborated with Vessel and NYX Electronic Drone Choir for New Music Biennial 2022, culminating in a performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in April 2022 and is involved in ongoing projects with electronic musician Clark for Deutsche Gramophone and South African cellist and Vocalist, Abel Selaocoe.

As a recording artist between July 2021 and August 2022 Rakhi led, consulted and performed a multitude of Nordic historic string instruments as well as her violin for the score of the critically acclaimed Hollywood film The Northman, released in April 2022.

Her recording of Finnis quartets No.1 and 2 with Manchester collective received five star reviews and she was nominated with Manchester Collective for best album at the BBC Music awards for The Centre is Everywhere.