Hania Rani

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Biografie

Hania Rani is a pianist, composer and musician who was born in Gdansk and splits her life between Warsaw, where she has her home, and Berlin where she studied and often works.

Her debut album ‘Esja’, a beguiling collection of solo piano pieces, on Gondwana Records was released to international acclaim on April 5th 2019 including nominations in 5 categories in the Polish music industries very own Grammys, the Fryderyki, and winning the Discovery of the Year 2019 in the Empikchain's Bestseller Awards and the prestigious Sankiaward for the most interesting new face of Polish music chosen by Polish journalists.

Rani also composed the music for her first full length movie "I Never Cry" directed by Piotr Domalewski and for the play "Nora" directed by Michał Zdunik. Her song "Eden" was used as a soundtrack of a short movie by Małgorzata Szumowska for Miu Miu's movie cycle "Women's Tales".

Her follow-up album, the expansive, cinematic, ‘Home’, was released on May 15th and finds Rani expanding her range: adding vocals and subtle electronics to her music as well as being joined on some tracks by bassist Ziemowit Klimek and drummer Wojtek Warmijak. The album reunites her with recording engineers Piotr Wieczorek and Ignacy Gruszecki (Monochrom Studio) and the tracks were again mixed by Gijs van Klooster in his studio in Amsterdam and by Piotr Wieczorekin Warsaw ( Ombelico and Come Back Home). Home was mastered by Zino Mikoreyin Berlin (known for his work on albums by artists such as Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds). For Rani, Home, is very much a continuation of the work she started on Esja, “the completion of the sentence” as she puts it. The album offers a metaphorical journey: the story of places that become our home sometimes by chance, sometimes by choice. It is the story of leaving a place that is familiar and the journey that follows it. Home opens with the fragment of the short story "Loneliness" by Bruno Schulz, which can be seen as a parable of a journey that does not necessarily mean going beyond the physical door but can signify going beyond the symbolic limits of our knowledge and imagination.

In February 2023, Hania Rani released her new soundtrack to the documentary “On Giacometti” directed by Susanna Fanzun. Recorded and shot in the Giacometti Atelier in Stampa, Switzerland, Hania Rani was invited by the director Susanna Fanzun to compose a selection of delicate recordings

Hania’s third solo album ‘Ghosts‘ was released on October 6th 2023, and features Patrick Watson, Ólafur Arnalds and Duncan Bellamy (from Portico Quartet) and was released on Gondwana Records on October 6 2023.

 

“With ‘Ghosts’ I wanted to start something from scratch, picking tools and stories I was not familiar with, but which felt dear to me. ‘Ghosts’ is a story about life and death, light and darkness, real and unreal. It’s an attempt to touch ultimate qualities and craft my own mythologies; to face fears, take a deep dive into things that scare me but also seduce me subconsciously. ‘Ghosts’  collects all of these things together, mixing the past, present and the future into a new sound of mine.”

 

Newly released (09/27/24) ‘Nostalgia‘ is Rani’s first ‘real’ live album, recorded in a place of deep personal and artistic significance: the Polish Radio studios in Warsaw. Through Nostalgia, Hania presents the studios in her own perspective, as somewhere unique and unknown. A place of work, but something more. A place of ghosts and hidden meanings, of inspiration and mystery. By juxtaposing her music with evocative analogue photographs of the studios, Rani provides a closer look at her artistic journey – from composing to performance and recording – all seen through her own eyes. For Rani, it is an experimental step – the first time she brings her sonic and visual worlds together in a combined presentation.

 

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  • Wise Music Group extends partnership with musician Hania Rani

    Wise Music Group extends partnership with musician Hania Rani

    31st Januar 2025

    Wise Music Group is delighted to announce that Berlin-based Bosworth Music GmbH has renewed its partnership with composer, pianist & singer Hania Rani, having first begun working together in January 2021.

  • Hania Rani - NPR Tiny Desk Concert

    Hania Rani - NPR Tiny Desk Concert

    29th Januar 2024

    Hania Rani visited NPR to give a fantastic Tiny Desk Concert. Hania Rani makes beautiful music that’s haunted, yet enchanted.

  • Nominierte für den Opus Klassik 2023

    Nominierte für den Opus Klassik 2023

    15th Juni 2023

    Zu den gut 600 Nominierten des Opus Klassik, der am 8. Oktober im Konzerthaus Berlin verliehen wird, gehören auch einige von uns verlegte Komponist*innen und Werke. Wir gratulieren!

  • Opus Klassik 2022 - Preisträger*innen stehen fest

    Opus Klassik 2022 - Preisträger*innen stehen fest

    6th September 2022

    Wir gratulieren den Preisträgerinnen und Preisträgern des diesjährigen OPUS KLASSIK und freuen uns auf die Preisverleihungen am 8. Oktober 2022 in der Kirche Elisabeth und am 9. Oktober 2022 im Konzerthaus Berlin. Es werden folgende...

  • Bosworth Creative @Reeperbahn Festival 2021

    Bosworth Creative @Reeperbahn Festival 2021

    16th September 2021

    Die 16. Ausgabe des Reeperbahn Festivals steht vor der Tür und wir freuen uns sehr, dass dieses Jahr erneute einige Künstler_Innen aus unserem Hause mit dabei sind. Hier die Übersicht: MI, 22.09.2021 / 22:00 UHR / BAHNHOF PAULI...