Hania Rani

Hania Rani at Royal Festival Hall - Southbank Centre

Pitchfork Music Festival London Presents:

HANIA RANI

\+ Special Guest Brìghde Chaimbeul

Composer, pianist and vocalist Hania Rani performs an exclusive solo show for Pitchfork Festival. A genre-blending nonconformist whose iconoclastic compositions interweave classical, jazz, and electronic influences, Rani was born in 1990 in Gdańsk, Poland—a city renowned for the Solidarity resistance movement— She began playing the piano at age seven. She eventually trained as a classical pianist in Warsaw and later pursued studies in Berlin. Recently, she has settled in London.

A quiet star, Rani constantly seeks the new in her work, challenging herself and her audience in an active process of renewal and regeneration. This driving quality brought her to release her symphonic debut Non Fiction: Piano Concerto In Four Movements (Decca Records, November 25), after a series of acclaimed solo and recordings for Gondwana Records and Deutsche Grammophon. Recorded at Abbey Road Studio 2, with an expanded 45-piece Manchester Collective, “Non Fiction” went on to premiere at the Barbican in London, alongside “Shining”, a new longform work, composed and arranged by Rani for a 12-piece ensemble. She has also been touring under her alter-ego “Chilling Bambino” an immersive ever-evolving project that acts as an outlet for subversive energy and ideas, translated into an ensemble of Prophet synthesisers, and has been performed at festivals such as Atonal, Unsound and Le Guess Who.

In January 2026, Rani won “Best Composer” at the European Film Award for her score for Joachim Trier’s Cannes and Oscar-winning film ‘Sentimental Value’(2025). And in June 2026, Rani collaborates with Ghanaian-born British artist and writer John Akomfrah for the 40th anniversary of Fotofestiwal in Łódź, performing specially composed new music, alongside and in response to his monumental work 'Listening All Night to The Rain’. October 2026 will see the premiere of her first Opera, IF I DO NOT RETURN commissioned