Hania Rani

Pianist, composer and singer Hania Rani gives a solo show at the Royal Festival Hall, with Brìghde Chaimbeul as special guest, presented as part of Pitchfork Music Festival London.

Hania Rani is a Polish pianist, composer and singer, born in Gdańsk in 1990 and active since 2015, when the debut album Biała Flaga appeared. Rani started piano at the age of seven, trained as a classical pianist in Warsaw and later studied in Berlin, and the music draws on classical, jazz and electronic ideas. A symphonic debut, Non Fiction: Piano Concerto in Four Movements, was released on Decca Records, recorded at Abbey Road Studio 2 with the Manchester Collective, and premiered at the Barbican in London. Rani also won Best Composer at the European Film Awards for the score to Joachim Trier's film Sentimental Value.

This London evening is an exclusive solo performance by Rani, presented as part of Pitchfork Music Festival London, with Brìghde Chaimbeul as special guest. Rani has also toured as Chilling Bambino, an ensemble built around Prophet synthesisers, which has appeared at the Atonal, Unsound and Le Guess Who festivals. Rani has recently settled in London.

The Royal Festival Hall, on Belvedere Road in London, is a concert hall that mainly hosts concerts, along with festival events.