Hania Rani | |
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 Rani performing in 2021 | |
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| Born | Hanna Raniszewska 1990 (age 34–35) Gdańsk, Poland |
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| Years active | 2015–present |
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| Website | haniarani |
Hania Rani (born Hanna Raniszewska in 1990) [1] is a Polish pianist, composer and singer. [2]
Rani was born in Gdańsk to parents who are a doctor and an architect. [2] [3] She studied music at the Feliks Nowowiejski Music School in Gdańsk and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. [4] [5]
Trained as a classical pianist, Rani began incorporating jazz into her work during music school. [6] In 2015, she collaborated with Dobrawa Czocher on the album Biala Flaga, featuring their arrangements of music by Grzegorz Ciechowski. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rani started experimenting with improvisation and composing. [7] She has blurred traditional distinctions between jazz, classical and house music. [8]
In 2024, ITV, one of the UK's leading broadcasters, commissioned a piece by Rani for the opening credits of their football coverage for the England national football team on ITV Sport. [9]
Rani announced her first piano concerto, Non Fiction, composed partially in response to the discovery in 2020 of the compositions of a young music prodigy, Josima Feldschuh, written during the horrors of World War II in the Warsaw Ghetto. It was recorded in Abbey Road Studios and was released on Decca Records. [10]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||
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| BEL (FL) Classic [11] | BEL (WA) Classic [12] | GER [13] | UK [14] | |||
| Esja |
| — | — | — | 65 | |
| Home |
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| Music for Film and Theatre |
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| Inner Symphonies (with Dobrawa Czocher) |
| — | — | 68 | — | |
| On Giacometti |
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| Ghosts |
| — | — | 52 | — | |
| Nostalgia |
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| Non Fiction - Piano Concerto in Four Movements |
| 4 | 5 | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||
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