Beatrice Rana

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About Beatrice Rana

In the 2010s, Italian pianist Beatrice Rana joined the ranks of elite young performers with her technical brilliance and the emotional intensity of her playing. You need listen no further than her critically acclaimed 2015 Warner Classic debut, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (1875) and Prokofiev's fiendish Piano Concerto No. 2 (1913). She communicates poetically as well in her subsequent recording of Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 (1949). But long before these collaborations with Antonio Pappano, Rana was exhibiting a musical maturity beyond her years. Born in 1993 into a family of musicians, she began her piano studies at age four and made her orchestral debut when she was nine, performing Bach's Piano Concerto No. 5 in F minor (1738). She studied with Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory in Monopoli, Italy, and Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover, Germany, winning first prize at the prestigious Montreal International Music Competition in 2011 and the silver medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition two years later. In 2017, she returned to Bach with a nuanced and vital recording of the Goldberg Variations (1741) that helped establish her reputation in her early 20s. Her love of early-20th-century repertoire has produced first-rate performances of Stravinsky and Debussy, where the sense of freedom in her playing and her feel for colour come to the fore.

HOMETOWN
Copertino, Italy
BORN
22 January 1993
GENRE
Classical

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