Beatrice Rana, piano: Performance program

Sunday

NOV 9 2:00 pm

BEATRICE RANA, piano

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Dave & Gunda Hiebert are pleased to be the Lied Center’s VIP Sponsor for today’s performance.

This event is sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

Please be mindful of the following in the auditorium and the Pavilion: • Please silence cellular phones and electronic devices • No food or drink • No cameras or recording devices

Sunday, November 9, 2014

BEATRICE RANA

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER SILVER MEDALIST FOURTEENTH VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION Fall 2014 Program BACH

Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825

Prelude

Allemande

Corrente

Sarabande

Minuets I & II

Gigue

CHOPIN

Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, op. 35

Grave — Doppio movimento

Scherzo

Marche funèbre

Finale: Presto

(18’)

(23’)

Intermission: 20 Minutes PROKOFIEV

Sonata No. 6 in A Major, op. 82

Allegro moderato

Allegretto

Tempo di valzer lentissimo

Vivace

Credits: Rana appears by arrangement with the Cliburn.

Tour is partially underwritten by BNSF Railway Foundation.

(30’)

Beatrice Rana, piano

Beatrice Rana For performances heralded as “intensely personalized music-making” (Dallas Morning News) with “an electrical current running through virtually every measure,” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), 21-year-old Italian pianist Beatrice Rana drew mass attention during the 2013 Cliburn Competition, capturing second prize, as well as the Audience Award.

Since then, she continues to build a reputation for sophisticated interpretations of emotional depth, prompting Gramophone magazine to proclaim that she “possesses an old soul that belies her 20 years, and more than a touch of genius.”

In the 2014–15 season, Rana will make orchestra debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Bernard Labadie, Detroit Symphony with Jun Märkl, and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Zürich with Zubin Mehta at the International Music Festival of the Orpheum Foundation for Advancement of Young Soloists. In the United States, a recital tour will take her to the Kennedy Center (under the auspices of Washington Performing Arts), Spivey Hall, Cliburn Concerts, the Gilmore, and Lied Center of Kansas, among others. Internationally, she has been invited to Wigmore Hall, the Auditorium du Louvre, Zürich’s Tonhalle, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, Filharmonica della Scala, RAI Symphony, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège.

A prizewinner many times over, Rana first attracted international attention at age 18 when she won first prize and all special prizes at the Montreal International Musical Competition in 2011. She was named “One to Watch” by International Piano magazine in 2013 just before her Cliburn appearance, and her artistry was highlighted again in the magazine’s “30 under 30” list in 2014.

She has previously been invited to several festivals around the world, including Ferrara Musica, La Folle Journée, La Roque d’Antherón, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Lanaudière, Radio-France in Montpellier, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Piano aux Jacobins International Piano Festival in Toulouse, and Toronto Summer Music Festivals. A frequent guest of international orchestras, she has appeared with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, RAI Symphony Torino, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, playing with Leonard Slatkin, Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Fabien Gabel, Joshua Weilerstein, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Bernard Labadie, and Fayçal Karoui, among others.

Sunday, November 9, 2014 In solo recital, she has performed across Europe and the United States, including for the Vancouver Recital Series, Winter Visual and Performing Arts Center, and Societa dei Concerti Milano. Her Washington, D.C., area debut in November 2013 for Wolf Trap was lauded as an “immaculate performance” with “plenty of sharp-fingered intensity…poise and intelligence,” according to the Washington Post.

Recording label Harmonia Mundi released an acclaimed live CD of her competition performances of Schumann, Ravel, and Bartók in November 2013. This recording joins her critically-acclaimed debut CD of works by Scriabin and Chopin on ATMA Classique.

Born in Copertino into a family of musicians, Beatrice Rana began musical studies at the age of four and made her concerto debut when she was nine. She currently studies with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, having previously graduated from the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Benedetto Lupo.

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