Beatrice Rana

Piano

Biography

Beatrice Rana's 25/26 season opens with performances of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Edinburgh International Festival with the London Philharmonic, BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony, Saratoga Festival with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Lucerne Festival with its own 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.

Further 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 curates a programme of Prokofiev, Debussy and Tchaikovsky arr. Pletnev which she tours across Europe and the US. 

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, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, 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, 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 like 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.

Beatrice 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 2017, Rana founded the chamber music festival ​Classiche Forme in her native town of Lecce, Puglia, which was awarded the Medal from Sergio Mattarella, the President of the Republic, in recognition of the cultural value it brings to the region.

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