Beatrice Rana opens the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni season with double recital

Beatrice Rana performance features works of Chopin, Ravel, and Albéniz. (Photo Credit: Gramophone)

Pianist Beatrice Rana opens the musical season of the Teatrone

The concert will feature Chopin's Four Scherzi, Ravel's La Valse and the Quaderno no. 3 from Iberia by Isaac Albéniz

Opening of the all-female musical season for the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni in Udine, Italy will welcome an authentic piano champion, Beatrice Rana, on its stage. The concert, organized in collaboration with the "Antonio Ricci" Academy of Piano Studies of Udine, will highlight the celebrated virtuosity of the Salento artist with a program between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, enhancing her sublime elegance and refinement. From the demanding writing of the Four Scherzi by Fryderyk Chopin, in La Valse by Maurice Ravel - at the center of the last recording made by the artist for Warner Classics - up to Quaderno no. 3 from Iberia, the famous collection of piano pieces is dedicated to the motherland of Isaac Albéniz.

Beatrice Rana made her debut as a soloist at the age of nine. She graduated in piano under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory in Monopoli, and at 18 she attracted the attention of critics by winning the Montreal International Competition. Since then, her professional and artistic career has been a succession of prestigious stages. She performs with the best conductors - Pappano, Temirkanov, Mehta among others - and the most acclaimed festivals and in the most important concert halls, where she stands out for her unmistakable style, impeccable touch, and masterful expressive naturalness. Her resume is full of awards, concerts and award-winning records. Her Goldberg Variations have been included by the New York Times among the 25 best recordings of 2017 and have won her a "Gramophone Award" in the "Young Artist of the Year" category as well as an Edison Award in the "Discovery of the Year" category . In June 2018 she was voted "Female Artist of the Year" at the "Classic BRIT Awards" of the Royal Albert Hall. Her latest album (2019) is dedicated to works by Stravinsky and Ravel.

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