Hania Rani

Hania Rani’s music grabs you — its gravitational pull sucks you into a hypnotic trance, regardless of your will. Pianist, composer, and vocalist, she has emerged as a genre-blending nonconformist who nevertheless has made a name for herself weaving classical, jazz, and electronic influences. Born in 1990 in Gdańsk, Poland—a city renowned for the Solidarity resistance movement— Hania began playing the piano at age seven. She eventually trained as a classical pianist in Warsaw and later studied in Berlin, where she explored electronic music. Recently, she has settled in London. Rani is a quiet star, more interested in connection than fame or spectacle, and constantly seeks the new in her work, challenging herself and her audience in an active process of renewal and regeneration. It’s a driving quality she has brought to bear on a series of extraordinary albums for Gondwana Records including solo piano albums like 2019’s Esja and 2023’s more electronic Ghosts, award-winning film and theatre scores, duo recordings with cellist and friend Dobrawa Czocher, art installations and most recently Rani has composed and recorded the score for Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Values. Her latest recording, Non Fiction: Piano Concerto In Four Movements (November 14 Decca Records) was recorded at Abbey Road Studio 2, with Hugh Tieppo-Brunt conducting an expanded 45-piece Manchester Collective, led by violinist Rakhi Singh and featuring guest performers Jack Wyllie and Valentina Magaletti.