Mar. 31 – At the age of nine, she made her debut as a paino soloist alongside an orchestra. At 18, she was won the first prize and all special prizes at the International Competition of Montréal. At 20, she irrupted on the international music scene by winning the Second Prize and the Audience Award at the prestigious “Van Cliburn”. This is the young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, the star of the RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale, in a concert held at the Auditorium Rai “Arturo Toscanini” of Turin. She had already been a guest of the RAI Orchestra last yaer, at 22, but Beatrice Rana has performed in halls such as the Zurich Tonhalle, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, in the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron, Montpellier, Nantes and the Busoni Festival in Bolzano. She performed alongside the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony and the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Now, the young artist prepares to make a stop in Hungary at the Giuseppe Verdi Hall of the Italian Cultural Institute in Bupest (1088 Budapest, Bródy Sándor u. 8.) where the music festival I-Talents 2015 is currently underway. I-Talents is a festival organized by the Institute, in collaboration with the Spring Festival – one of the most important cultural initiatives of Budapest. Rana’s concert, scheduled for April 13 at 7pm. The program includes pieces by Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, and Maurice Ravel.
