Meet pianist Ran Dank as soloist for RI Philharmonic Orchestra’s The Romance of Rachmaninoff

Meet award-wining pianist Ran Dankv

About Ran Dank, pianist

• Highlights included recital at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival performing Frederic Rzewski’s tour-de-force 36 Variations: The People United Will Never Be Defeated followed by appearances at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, and a duo recital with pianist Soyeon Kate Lee at the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.
• Mr. Dank and Ms. Lee, known as the Dank Duo, were special guest performers at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 2018 Gala.
• 2018-19 season featured recitals with the Dank Duo at the Yale School of Music, San Francisco Performances, a return to the Pro Musica San Miguel de Allende, and Brahms, Janáček and Franck sonatas with acclaimed violinist Augustin Hadelich for the Linton Music series.
• Orchestral engagements were Bernstein’s Symphony No.2, The Age of Anxiety with the Eugene Symphony Orchestra led by Francesco Lecce-Chong; Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the Toledo Symphony, Alain Trudel, conductor; Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.2 with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stuart Chafetz; and Mozart with the Ashville Symphony Orchestra.
• 2017-2018 season featured appearances with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Eckart Preu, the Portland Symphony and Ken-David Masur, the Spokane Symphony and Morihiko Nakamura, and the Kansas City Symphony and Michael Stern for its season finale.
• Performed chamber music with the Amernet Quartet at Maverick Concerts and had duo appearances with pianist Ms. Lee at the Smithsonian Institute, Cincinnati’s Linton Music and Le Poisson Rouge in New York City.
• Solo recitals included the Gilmore Piano Festival, New York City Town Hall recital for Peoples’ Symphony Concerts, Washington Performing Arts Society at the Kennedy Center, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw, Finland’s Mänttä Festival, Philip Lorenz Memorial Concerts in Fresno, the Israel Conservatory of Music and chamber music at the Seattle, Montreal, Israel, Great Lakes and Skaneateles Chamber Music festivals, and Maverick Concerts with the Shanghai Quartet.
• The Dank Duo established a series of concerts, Music by the Glass, held in a New York SoHo art gallery, where young professionals listen, mix and mingle with performing artists who play solo pieces and chamber works.
• Recipient of numerous honors, including the Naumburg Piano Competition and the Sydney International Piano Competition. He was the First Prize winner of the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.

*** At a Glance ***

Romance of Rachmaninoff
TACO Classical Series Concert
Saturday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m.

 Ken-David Masur, conductor
Ran Dank, piano

DUKAS: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique
RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Amica Rush Hour Series
Friday, Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m.

Ken-David Masur, conductor
Ran Dank, piano (replaces previously listed Fabio Bidini)

DUKAS: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique
RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

RIPYO Side-by-Side performance
BORODIN: Petite Suite: Au Couvent in C sharp minor