At twenty, pianist Ran Jia is already regarded as a striking musician with unusual natural abilities. Tan Dun hailed her a “piano poet with dramatic skill in music making”.
Recent highlights include a return, sold-out concert at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and a performance of two Mozart concerti with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra at the Shanghai Concert Hall. She has been featured in a live concert on Chicago’s classical music station WFMT as well as a worldwide broadcast on WQXR in New York of a concert in honor of Thelonius Monk’s 90th birthday for which she was the only classical pianist invited to perform. Ms. Jia made an acclaimed European recital debut at the Klavierfestival Ruhr in the summer of 2008 playing two Schubert sonatas. The press commented “She refines each moment, each development, each transition of a melody to the next…With marvelous impressive elegance in touch she feels her way into Schubert’s language – sometimes with dolorous sweetness, sometimes with thunderous rage, then again with a sparkling style, to then go back to a Beethovian energy. There are no fractures, no stutters, no technical hurdles – with this pianist the structures and sounds flow naturally on its own…Tremendous.” Ms. Jia also recently made her Vancouver Symphony Orchestra subscription debut under Maestro Bramwell Tovey, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.12 in A major, K. 414. For an upcoming concert at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, Ms. Jia will perform Tan Dun’s “Eight Memories in Watercolor” and Schubert’s Sonata in c minor, D 958.
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