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Beatrice Rana
Rachmaninoff | The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
108 Avenue Of the Pines
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
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Philadelphia Orchestra Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to Saratoga to lead two unique programs that can only be heard at SPAC. The program opens with the suite from Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird. One of the most beloved ballets of all time, The Firebird was originally written by a then relatively unknown Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in the early 1900’s. The imaginative score is equal parts thrilling and ethereal, bringing to life an old Russian tale and launching the composer’s now storied career. Italian pianist, Beatrice Rana, returns to SPAC for the first time in more than a decade, performing Rachmaninoff’s inventive Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Since her first visit to SPAC, Rana has become one of the most sought-after pianists of her generation, earing praise for her “underlying calm command” (The New York Times) and refined approach. Through SPAC’s and The Philadelphia Orchestra’s continued efforts to explore works by underrepresented composers, the program closes with the rarely performed Second Symphony by William Grant Still. A prolific composer who produced dozens of major orchestral works over his 50-year career, Still had a storied relationship with The Philadelphia Orchestra and longtime maestro Leopold Stokowski who proclaimed Still as “one of our greatest American composers.” Learn more and buy tickets now at spac.org
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Beatrice Rana Biography
Beatrice Rana has been shaking the international classical music world, arousing admiration and interest from concert presenters, conductors, critics and audiences internationally.
Beatrice performs at the world’s most esteemed concert halls and festivals including the Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, New York’s Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall, Walt Disney Hall and Hollywood Bowl, London's Royal Albert Hall.
She collaborates with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Klaus Mäkelä, Lahav Shani, Manfred Honeck, Riccardo Chailly, Gianandrea Noseda, Zubin Mehta.
In the 2024/25 season, Beatrice will be artist in residence at Paris’ 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 Macelaru and Mikko Frank. She will also return to the New York Philharmonic with Marek Janowski, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Gianandrea Noseda, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck, and debut with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Alain Altinoglu.
Beatrice Rana records exclusively for Warner Classics. Her latest album, released in 2024, is dedicated to two monuments of the 19th century repertoire, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata and Chopin’s sonata No.2 ‘Funeral March’.
In 2017, Beatrice 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.
Read MoreBeatrice performs at the world’s most esteemed concert halls and festivals including the Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, New York’s Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall, Walt Disney Hall and Hollywood Bowl, London's Royal Albert Hall.
She collaborates with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Klaus Mäkelä, Lahav Shani, Manfred Honeck, Riccardo Chailly, Gianandrea Noseda, Zubin Mehta.
In the 2024/25 season, Beatrice will be artist in residence at Paris’ 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 Macelaru and Mikko Frank. She will also return to the New York Philharmonic with Marek Janowski, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Gianandrea Noseda, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck, and debut with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Alain Altinoglu.
Beatrice Rana records exclusively for Warner Classics. Her latest album, released in 2024, is dedicated to two monuments of the 19th century repertoire, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata and Chopin’s sonata No.2 ‘Funeral March’.
In 2017, Beatrice 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.
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