Rachel Yatzkan (born 1968) is a Denmark-based composer of Israeli, Iranian and Bulgarian heritage.
Her music is independent of new music’s many conventions and stylistic directions – it appears differently from work to work and yet nevertheless remains itself. This is not to say that the musical experiments of the latest decades are foreign to her work – on the contrary. After studies in Jerusalem (improvisation, saxophone, compositional experiments, work with music for theatre) Rachel Yatzkan moved to Holland (1996 - 2001) and was systematically introduced, through her composition studies in The Hague, to contemporary music techniques. It is often with a radical and highly individual investigation of these possibilities that her music maintains an unmistakably personal character.