Beatrice Rana

Born into a family of musicians in Apulia in 1993, Beatrice Rana completed her piano studies with Benedetto Lupo at the Conservatorio “Nino Rota” in Monopoli, where she also took composition lessons with Marco Della Sciucca. She subsequently continued her training with Arie Vardi in Hanover and again with Lupo, this time at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Rana first gained international attention in 2011 when she won First Prize and all of the special prizes at the Concours musical international de Montréal. Two years later, she received the Silver Medal and the Audience Award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She has performed with many leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, Chicago and Boston Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestre de Paris, and the Orchestre National de France. Highlights of the 2024-25 season included an artist residency with Radio France as well as guest appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Czech Philharmonic. In the fall of 2025, she will undertake a recital tour in the US. Her collaborators on the podium include Riccardo Chailly, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Jakub Hrůša, Paavo Järvi, Klaus Mäkelä, Susanne Mälkki, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Sir Antonio Pappano. Rana’s debut CD of piano concertos by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky was released in 2015, followed in 2017 by her account of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, for which she earned the Gramophone, Edison, and Classic BRIT Awards. Her most recent album, which appeared in March 2025, is likewise dedicated to Bach and includes his piano concertos. Beatrice Rana also founded the Classiche Forme Festival in her hometown of Lecce, launched in 2017 and now one of Italy’s major cultural events of the summer.

Lucerne Festival debut on 24 November 2017 in a program of works by Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt.

June 2025