Rachel Schiff is an American classical guitarist who began playing at age five and studied at the National High School Music Institute with Mark Maxwell before entering Northwestern University in 2005 under Professor Anne Waller, completing her Bachelor of Music in 2009. She went on to earn a Diploma di Merito at the Accademia Chigiana in the class of Oscar Ghiglia, and completed a Master of Music at Northwestern in 2010.

Schiff continued her studies with Dale Kavanagh at the Koblenz International Guitar Academy and completed post-graduate work in 2013 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln under Roberto Aussel. That same year she was a prize winner at the Niksic International Guitar Competition in Montenegro, with the performance broadcast on national radio and television.

Sources:

• https://rachelschiff.com/
• https://www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/rachel-schiff-plays-scarlatti-k322/