La acabo de escuchar, interpretando a Schumann en los PROMS de la BBC. Impresionante talento el de esta pianista italiana. Chapeau por Beatrice Rana!
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Biography
“Beatrice possesses an old soul that belies her
twenty years, and more than a touch of genius” Gramophone,
January 2014. Twenty-two year-old Beatrice Rana has shaken the
international classical music world already and aroused admiration and interest
from concert presenters, conductors, critics and audiences in many countries. In June 2013, she won Silver (2nd Prize) and the
Audience Award at the prestigious Van Cliburn competition, bringing her to yet
a new level in her already very promising career. She had attracted
international attention at 18, winning 1st Prize and all special prizes at the
Montreal International competition in 2011.
Beatrice is in demand as soloist for concert
series and festivals throughout the world, such as Zurich’s Tonhalle, Vienna’s
Konzerthaus, Verbier Festival, London’s Wigmore Hall, Washington DC’s Kennedy
Center, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Ferrara Musica, Paris Auditorium du Louvre, La
Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Radio-France Festival in Montpellier, Portland Piano
Festival, Lied Center of Kansas, Milan’s Società dei Concerti, Lanaudière
Festival, Toronto Summer Music, the Vancouver Recital Society, La Folle Journée
in Nantes. In August 2015, she made her Verbier Festival recital debut,
standing in for Mikhail Pletnev.
A guest of several orchestras internationally,
Beatrice has engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall,
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Accademia di Santa-Cecilia, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the RAI Symphony
Torino, the Dresdner Philharmonie, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in
Brisbane, the Filharmonica della Scala, the Maggio Musicale, with conductors
including Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Jun Märkl, Leonard Slatkin, Trevor Pinnock,
Fabien Gabel, Fayçal Karoui, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Andrès Orozco-Estrada,
Susanna Mälkki, Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi and Zubin Mehta.
Beatrice Rana was selected in 2014 to perform at
the International Music Festival of the Orpheum Foundation for advancement of
Young Soloists at Zurich’s Tonhalle, with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
conducted by Zubin Mehta.
A recipient of an impressive number of first prizes
in national and international piano competitions, such as the Muzio Clementi
Competition, International Piano Competition of the Republic of San Marino and
Bang&Olufsen PianoRAMA Competition, Beatrice was selected in 2010 among 60
participants as one of the six pianists competing for the Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli Prize, attended a prestigious masterclass with Arie Vardi, with
whom she now studies in Hannover.
Born to a family of musicians in 1993, Beatrice Rana made her debuts as a
soloist with orchestra at the age of 9, performing Bach Concerto in F minor.
Beatrice began her musical studies at four and achieved her Piano Degree at the
age of sixteen with top marks, laude and honorable mention under the guidance
of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli, where she
also studied composition with Marco della Sciucca. During her studies, she was
awarded at the age of twelve the prestigious scholarship of the Italian
Ministry of Education, University and Research for her great and very
precocious musical talent. At the same time she attended masterclasses in
Italy, France and United States with artists such as M. Beroff, A. Ciccolini,
A. Jasinski, F. J. Thioillier, E. Virsaladze.
