Hania Rani

Neo-classical pianist and composer Hania Rani employs a delicate, vulnerable, and minimalist playing style with modern recording techniques to evoke themes of self, home, and landscape. She was classically trained at the Feliks Nowowiejski music school in her hometown, where she met cellist and best friend Dobrawa Czocher. Later, Rani moved on to Warsaw's Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, where she built upon her devout, conscientious approach to study with extra-curricular diversions into jazz and electronica. Following 2015's Biała Flaga -- a joint album release with Czocher -- she traveled to Reykjavik to compose and record solo material. Jazz trumpeter Matthew Halsall was so impressed by her demos that he offered to issue her 2019 debut album, Esja, on his Manchester-based Gondwana Records. This record's release led to five Fryderyk nominations for Rani in Poland, and she began to talk about its 2020 sequel, Home.