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

In the 2024/25 season, Rana will be artist in residence at Paris’s Radio France. The residency will involve a recital at the Auditorium de Radio France and several concerts and tours with both in-house orchestras—the Orchestre National de France and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France—and their music directors, Cristian Măcelaru and Mikko Franck. She will also return to the New York Philharmonic with Marek Janowski, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Gianandrea Noseda, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck, and début with the Czech Philharmonic and Alain Altinoglu.

Rana records exclusively for Warner Classics. In 2015, her first album, featuring Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, received international acclaim including the prestigious Gramophone magazine Editor’s Choice and BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer of the Year Award. The year 2017 will remain a milestone in her career with the release of Bach: Goldberg Variations. The recording was praised by reviewers worldwide and 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 Bach recording. Her latest album, released in 2024, is dedicated to two monuments of the 19th century, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 “Hammerklavier” and Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 “Funeral March”.

In 2017, 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. 

In June 2013, Rana won Silver (Second Prize) and the Audience Award at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition. She had attracted international attention at 18, winning First Prize and all special prizes at the Montreal International Competition in 2011. Born into a family of musicians, Rana began her musical studies at 4 and achieved 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 Hannover and again with Benedetto Lupo at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.