Hania Rani, the Polish pianist and composer, plays an acoustic solo piano recital of new compositions at the Royal Festival Hall, with the smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul.
Hania Rani, the Polish pianist who scored Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, plays a solo recital at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Sunday 8 November 2026.
Born in Gdańsk in 1990, she began playing the piano at seven. She trained as a classical pianist in Warsaw, then studied in Berlin, where she began to explore electronic music.
Her music joins classical, jazz and electronic influences. Her albums for Gondwana Records include the solo piano record Esja in 2019 and the more electronic Ghosts in 2023.
She has recorded duets with the cellist Dobrawa Czocher and written award-winning scores for film and theatre. Her latest recording, Non Fiction: Piano Concerto in Four Movements, came out on Decca.
She made that concerto at Abbey Road’s Studio Two with an expanded, 45-piece Manchester Collective. For this evening she plays an acoustic cycle of new compositions on her own.
Brìghde Chaimbeul, the smallpipes player and Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, also performs. The evening runs for about two and a half hours.