Rachel is energized by making connections, building collaborative projects, and nurturing meaningful creative relationships.

With a perspective shaped by more than 20 years of experience in the classical music field, Rachel founded Sokolow Artists to fill a space in the industry and offer composers and artists the highly tailored support they need to bolster their creative practice and raise visibility for their work.

After receiving her BMus degree in Violin Performance from The Hartt School, Rachel pursued a wide variety of performance opportunities in Los Angeles, from special recording projects to film scores (credits include “The Art of the Song” with Charlie Haden’s Quartet West and the great 1999 cinematic romp “Wild Wild West” scored by Elmer Bernstein and starring Will Smith and Salma Hayek), won a full-time position in the Oregon Symphony, and ultimately discovered that her creativity was fully animated offstage as an advocate for music creators and performing artists. 

Prior to creating Sokolow Artists, Rachel held leadership positions in artist management at MKI Artists, working with composer Jessie Montgomery and soprano Karen Slack, and in music publishing as Promotion Director at G. Schirmer, Inc./Wise Music Classical. While at Wise Music Classical, she had the privilege of working with a distinguished roster of composers, oversaw the commissioning of more than fifty works, signed Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun and brought to publishing the previously unpublished works of composer Florence Price. She was the Artistic Administrator for David Finckel and Wu Han’s Music@Menlo and Chamber Music Today festivals and the ArtistLed and Music@MenloLIVE recording labels, and spent a total of seven years at Carnegie Hall, working on the national expansion of the LinkUp program and and as part of the leadership team that launched the inaugural seasons of the program now known as Ensemble Connect.

As a sought-after mentor and guest speaker on topics ranging from artist management to publishing, Rachel has appeared at the League of American Orchestras Conference, the New Music Gathering, American Composers Forum, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, and recently served as a composer mentor for fellows in the American Composers Orchestra’s Earshot program in its 2023-2024 season.

Rachel lives in Vermont with her husband and enjoys its spectacular fall foliage. When she’s not listening to music, she spends her time tackling challenging knitting projects, snuggling with cats and the occasional angora bunny, and indulging in her husband’s always delicious culinary experiments.

Her principal violin teachers were Naoko Tanaka, Mitchell Stern and Philip Setzer.