Winner of Gramophone magazine’s award for Young Artist of the Year in 2017, Italian pianist Beatrice Rana has been a force on the music scene since winning the prestigious Montreal International Musical Competition in 2011. Two years later, she snagged a Silver Medal and the Audience Award at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition — when she was a mere 20 years old. The New York Times wrote that Rana’s rendition of Chopin’s op. 25 Études “made the pieces sound as poetic and colorful as anything Chopin ever wrote.”

Program
Fryderyk Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat Major, op. 35
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat Major, op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”)