One of WQXR's extraodinary "19 for 19" artists, Beatrice Rana, performs Chopin's Étude Op. 25 No. 5 for (...offstage) ahead of her Carnegie Hall debut.
Rana made an international splash as the Silver Medalist of the 14th Van Cliburn competition - a decade after her orchestral debut at just nine years old. A 2018 Classic BRIT Awards nominee for Best Female Artist of the Year, Rana is certainly a young artist to keep on any music lover’s radar. Her 2017 recording of Bach’s The Goldberg Variations made hers a name often spoken in the WQXR office, and earned her a place on that year’s best overall albums list. Rana tours tirelessly in 2019, traveling between various cities in the U.K., Italy and Germany in a matter of days. In New York, Rana appears twice at Carnegie Hall, first for her recital debut at Zankel Hall in March, and in June for the final concert of the season, joining Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra for Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3.