Farrah Rotman

Biography

Farrah Rotman (b. 1997) is a trans female composer, lyricist, pianist, writer, and orchestrator based in Brooklyn.

Farrah was the 2020 recipient of Yale University’s highest arts award, the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, as well as Yale’s Bach Society Music Prize and Abraham Beekman Cox Prize. She has won the Tribeca New Music Competition and was twice a finalist for the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the Charles Ives Concert Series. She won the Brian Israel Prize at the Syracuse Society for New Music, the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester Composer Competition, the Juventas New Music Ensemble Call for Scores, and was a YoungArts winner in 2014 and 2015.

As a music director, Farrah has worked on several productions at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University including “The Commedia Project” (dir. Christopher Bayes) and “Bulgaria! Revolt!” She was the co-music director of the 2020 Yale Whiffenpoofs and the music director of the Yale Spizzwinks.

Farrah holds a B.A. in Music & Theatre Studies with honors from Yale University and a diploma in Composition from Juilliard Pre-College. She is also an aerial rope artist with experience performing at some of New York City's most prestigious venues, including House of Yes, The Stranger, and The Slipper Room.