Introducing Beatrice Rana! And exemplary Pianist from Italian, only twenty, Beatrice received 2nd Place and the Audience Award at this years Van Cliburn Competition. As promised, we’re doing specials on the three winners. If you missed our first post describing the Van Cliburn Competition, you can find it here. We also already did a special post on Sean Chen, the American who won third! Be sure to check out his story on his featured post. Beatrice Rana made her debuts as a soloist with orchestra at the age of 9, performing Bach Concerto in F minor. Beatrice began her musical studies at four and achieved her Piano Degree at the age of sixteen with top marks, laude and honorable mention under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli. I was honored to be the photographer for these winners. Beatrice had to leave early on the day we were headed to the Van Cliburn estate. So we found some other cool locations to take Beatrice’s career management photographs.  These photos and others will be used for marketing and promotional material for Beatrice, one of the prizes for being the 2nd place and Audience Award Winner. Congratulations and good luck Beatrice to all your future endeavors! You will succeed so much at life!