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BEATRICE RANA
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At only 24 years old, Beatrice Rana is making waves on the international classical music scene, arousing admiration
and interest from conductors, critics and audiences around the world.
Beatrice Rana performs regularly at the world’s most esteemed concert halls and festivals including Vienna’s
Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Zurich’s Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Paris’s Théâtre des
Champs-Elysées, Lucerne’s KKL, Berlin Konzerthaus, Cologne Philharmonie, Milan’s Società dei Concerti, Ferrara
Musica, Verbier Festival, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Lugano Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Montpellier RadioFrance Festival, Lanaudière Festival, Vancouver Recital Society, San Francisco Performances, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall
and Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap.
She collaborates with conductors of the highest level such as Riccardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Yannick NézetSéguin, Fabio Luisi, James Conlon, Emmanuel Krivine, Osmo Vänska, Jun Märkl, Trevor Pinnock, Mirga GrazinyteTyla, Fabien Gabel, Lahav Shani, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Susanna Mälkki, Leonard Slatkin and Zubin Mehta.
Orchestral appearances include the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra del Maggio
Musicale Fiorentino, RAI Torino, London Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC
Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Flemish
Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonie, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony and
NHK Symphony.
During the 2016/2017 season, Ms. Rana will embark on an international recital tour of Bach’s Goldberg Variations
to Wigmore Hall, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Berlin Konzerthaus, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Ferrara Musica, Santa
Cecilia di Roma and San Francisco Performances amongst others. Further recitals include Munich’s Herkulessaal,
Milan’s Società dei Concerti, Tokyo’s Toppan Hall and the Tongyeong Festival in South Korea. She makes concerto
appearances with Riccardo Chailly and Filarmonica della Scala, Fabio Luisi and NHK Symphony, Antonio Pappano
and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at the Lugano Festival, as well as RAI Torino, Orchestra
Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Zurich Kammer Orchester at the Cologne Philharmonie and Luzern
Sinfonieorchester at the KKL.
In the 2017/2018 season, she will play recitals at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Lucerne Piano Festival and
Toronto's Koerner Hall; tour with Antonio Pappano and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia to the
Enescu Festival, Abu Dhabi Festival and Rochester NY; make debuts with the Helsinki Philharmonic and Seoul
Philharmonic; and return to Paris with Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre National de France and to London’s
Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic and Mikhail Jurowski. In North America, she makes subscription
debuts with Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and Montreal.
She makes her debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Fall 2018.
An exclusive Warner Classics recording artist, Ms. Rana recorded Bach’s Goldberg Variations for her latest disc,
released in February 2017. Her first album, released in Fall 2015, featured Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Antonio Pappano and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia. The disc received unanimous international acclaim and was named Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice and BBC
Magazine’s Recording of the Month.
Beatrice Rana came to public attention in 2011 after winning First Prize and all special jury prizes at the Montreal
International Competition. Her very promising career was brought to an even higher level in 2013 when she won
the Silver Medal and the Audience Award at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In September
2015, she was named a BBC New Generation Artist, and in April 2016 she was awarded a fellowship from the
Borletti-Buitoni Trust.
Born in Italy into a family of musicians, Ms. Rana began her piano studies at the age of four and made her
orchestral debut at the age of nine. She currently lives in Rome where she continues her studies with her lifetime
mentor, Benedetto Lupo, and studied previously with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover.
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