Beatrice Rana is celebrated on the international stage as “one of the most insightful and prodigiously gifted artists of the new generation” (New York Times). Renowned for her clarity of touch, poetic sensibility and passionate interpretations, Rana performs in the major concert halls and with the world’s most esteemed orchestras, conductors and artists.
Her 25/26 season opens with performances of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Edinburgh International Festival with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Lucerne Festival with its Festival Orchestra. Throughout the season, she embarks on tours with the London Symphony Orchestra and Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Daniel Harding, Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Riccardo Minasi.
Additional highlights include performances with the Bavarian State Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Vienna Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic. In recital, Rana performs a program of Prokofiev, Debussy and Tchaikovsky (arr. Pletnev), which she tours across Europe and the United States. In North America, she performs at Cleveland’s Severance Hall, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Montreal’s Bourgie Hall, Cliburn Concerts’ Van Cliburn Series, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center and Carnegie Hall.
Rana collaborates with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly, Manfred Honeck, Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi, Gianandrea Noseda, Susanna Mälkki, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Jakub Hrůša, Gustavo Gimeno, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Lahav Shani, Elim Chan and Klaus Mäkelä. The many high-profile orchestras she has performed with include the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw, London Symphony, Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestre de Paris, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and NHK Symphony.
She gives solo recitals at the most prestigious venues worldwide and is a regular guest at major festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, Verbier Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Klavier Festival Ruhr and Festival de Pâques d’Aix en Provence.
Rana records exclusively for Warner Classics. Her most recent release in 2025 features a selection of Bach’s keyboard concertos, which she play-directs with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. In 2023, she recorded the piano concertos of Clara and Robert Schumann with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, an album that was widely acclaimed. In 2017, Rana released a landmark recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which received international critical praise and earned her Female Artist of the Year honors at the Classic BRIT Awards.
Multiple record award wins include Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards, Newcomer of the Year by BBC Music Magazine and Discovery of the Year at the Edison Awards. Her 2015 debut album for Warner, featuring Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, was recorded with Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Rana attracted international attention after winning second prize and the Audience Award at the Van Cliburn competition in 2013. Before this, at age 18, she won first prize and all special prizes at the Montreal International Competition in 2011.
Rana was born into a family of musicians and began learning the piano at age 4. She studied under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli, where she also pursued composition with Marco della Sciucca. She later continued her piano studies with Lupo at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and studied with Arie Vardi in Hannover. In 2017, Rana founded the chamber music festival Classiche Forme in her hometown of Lecce, Puglia, which was awarded a medal from Sergio Mattarella, the president of the Republic of Italy, in recognition of the cultural value the festival brings to the region.
August 2025
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