Biography
In the 2023–24 season Beatrice Rana tours with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Antonio Pappano, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and Orchestre philharmonique du Luxembourg. She makes debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and The Cleveland Orchestra, with Lahav Shani, and returns to the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Manfred Honeck. In 2017 Rana started her own chamber music festival, Classiche Forme, in her native town of Lecce, Puglia. She became artistic director of the Orchestra filarmonica di Benevento in 2020. Recording exclusively for Warner Classics, in 2023 she released her fifth album, featuring Clara and Robert Schumann’s Piano Concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Nézet-Séguin. Her most recent album, featuring works by Beethoven and Chopin, will be released in March 2024.
Rana attracted international attention in 2011 when she won First Prize at the Montreal International Competition; in 2013 she won Second Prize and the Audience Award at the Van Cliburn Competition. Her 2017 release of Bach’s Goldberg Variations won her “Young Artist of the Year” at the Gramophone Awards, “Discovery of the Year” at the Edison Awards, and 2018’s Female Artist of the Year at the Classic BRIT Awards. In 2022 she was awarded The Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize at the New York Philharmonic.
Born to a family of musicians in 1993, Beatrice Rana made her orchestral debut at age nine performing Bach’s Concerto in F minor. She began musical studies at four and achieved her piano degree under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli, also studying composition with Marco della Sciucca. She then studied with Arie Vardi in Hannover and again with Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.