Carnegie Hall

Beatrice Rana has been shaking up the international classical music world, arousing admiration and interest from concert presenters, conductors, critics, and audiences around the world.

In the 2023–2024 season, Ms. Rana tours to Europe with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Sir Antonio Pappano, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. She makes debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Cleveland Orchestra with Lahav Shani, and she returns to the New York Philharmonic with Manfred Honeck.

In 2023, she released her fifth album, which featured Clara and Robert Schumann’s concertos with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Mr. Nézet-Séguin. Ms. Rana’s newest album, which features works by Beethoven and Chopin, will be released in March 2024.

In 2017, Ms. Rana started her own chamber music festival, Classiche Forme, in her native town of Lecce, Puglia. The festival has become one of Italy’s major summer events. She became artistic director of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento in 2020.

Ms. Rana won second prize and the Audience Award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2013. She attracted international attention in 2011, at the age of 18, when she won First Prize at the Concours musical international de Montréal. In 2017, the release of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations was a milestone in her career. The recording was praised by reviewers worldwide and was crowned by two major awards: Young Artist of the Year at the Gramophone Awards and Discovery of the Year at the Edison Awards. In June 2018, she was chosen as Female Artist of the Year at the Classic BRIT Awards at the Royal Albert Hall for her recording of the Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Her latest solo album was released in October 2019, featuring works by Stravinsky and Ravel, and was awarded several top prizes, including the Diapason d’Or de l’Année and Choc-Classica de l’Année in France.

Born to a family of musicians in 1993, Ms. Rana made her orchestral debut at the age of nine, performing Bach’s Concerto in F Minor. She began her musical studies at four and earned her piano degree under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli, where she also studied composition with Marco della Sciucca. She then studied with Arie Vardi in Hanover and again with Mr. Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.