Abstract
In her mid-twenties the Italian pianist Beatrice Rana performed in numerous important concert halls. She received international acclaim with the silver medal and the Audience Award at the renowned «Van Cliburn International Piano Competition» in 2013. Since then she has given concerts with renowned conductors and orchestras worldwide, recorded an album with Antonio Pappano and the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia di Roma (Tchaikovsky's First and Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto) as well as a solo album with Bach's Goldberg Variations. The artist makes her debut with the Philharmonia Zurich with Ludwig van Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto in C minor op. 37. Together with General Music Director Fabio Luisi, a cycle with all Beethoven concertos is planned (the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major will follow in July). The program for this Philharmonic Concert also includes the Great Symphony in C major D 944 by Franz Schubert. This extensive score was first performed at the Gewandhaus Leipzig after Schubert's death – today it is undisputedly one of the masterpieces of Romantic symphonic music.
