Pitchfork Music Festival London: Hania Rani
Surrender to the hypnotic trance of the extraordinary pianist, composer and vocalist’s music at an acoustic piano recital featuring new compositions.
Hania Rani’s music grabs you – its gravitational force pulls you in and doesn’t let go.
Rani has emerged as a genre-blending non-conformist renowned for interweaving classical, jazz and electronic influences.
Born in 1990 in Gdańsk, Poland – a city known for the Solidarity resistance movement – Rani began playing the piano at the age of seven. She eventually trained as a classical pianist in Warsaw and later pursued studies in Berlin, where she began to explore electronic music.
Rani 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 that 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 electronically inclined Ghosts. Beautiful duo recordings with cellist and friend Dobrawa Czocher (Deutsche Grammophon) and several art installations similarly embody Rani’s artistic vision of renewal.
Rani is also behind numerous award-winning film and theatre scores, most recently composing and recording the score for Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Value.
Her latest recording, Non Fiction: Piano Concerto in Four Movements (Decca Records), was recorded at Abbey Road’s Studio Two, 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.
For this event, Rani performs an acoustic solo piano recital featuring a cycle of new compositions.
Need to know
Box package
You can buy an exclusive box package for this event. More details of our Royal Festival Hall exclusive box package.
Times & tickets
Dates, times and prices
Dates & times
08 Nov 2026, 7.30pm
Run time
2 hours and 30 minutes (approx)
All timings are approximate and subject to change
Standard entry
from £29.50 + £4 booking fee
Ticket prices may be adjusted without notice to reflect demand.
Concessions
Learn more about concession discounts
Refunds and exchanges
Find out more about our refund and exchange policy
Become a Member
Members get free entry to the Hayward Gallery and the first chance to book our entire programme of events, including go-down-in-history gigs, concerts with world-class orchestras, and talks from cultural icons and political giants.
Join today from £60
For your visit
This event is held at the Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre
The Royal Festival Hall is open six days a week.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
Plan your visit
The Royal Festival Hall is home to our largest auditorium as well as The Clore Ballroom, National Poetry Library, Members’ Lounge, Festival Bar & Kitchen, Ballroom Cafe and Skylon restaurant.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
On Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace. You can grab a coffee and a slice of freshly made cake from our Ballroom Cafe. Or alternatively enjoy destination dining in the restaurant at Skylon.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.