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Kosonen Ranieri Duo
Duo - Instrumental
Instrumentation
- Mianoora Kosonen - piano
- Arianna Ranieri - viola
Repertoire
Our music is fresh, innovative, and bold, as we explore new ways to communicate the classics, providing an intriguing and inviting experience in chamber music. Our repertoire ranges from classical, to folk, traditional Scottish, and modern works. We love to do themed concerts, incorporating other forms of media, like artwork, performing works by women and lesser known composers, including our own arrangements and interpretations of classical favourites, classical duets, staple repertoire, and adapted traditional Scottish music.
Biography
Kosonen Ranieri Duo was formed in 2021, by pianist Mianoora Kosonen and violist Arianna Ranieri, upon their graduation from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The duo performs a wide range of chamber music, art songs, folk and traditional music. KRD also often performs in concerts hosted by Women In Chamber Music, an ensemble of which the duo members are co-founders. The duo hosts their own concerts, perform in prestigious chamber music series across Scotland, and record repertoire. KRD has also performed in several concert tours together as a part of the WICM ensemble, and were delighted to be invited to perform duo pieces and with WICM, for Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, at the annual gathering of Scotland's Churches Trust in 2022. The musicians are also highly trained and experienced music educators and instructors, with a passion for healthy practice, well-rounded teaching, and making music accessible to all.
Arianna Ranieri is an Italian American freelance and session violist, as well as a music instructor, with a background in upper string pedagogy and injury prevention. Ranieri received her Bachelor of Music Performance from Northern Kentucky University in 2017, studying with violist Dr. Holly Attar, and later received her Master of Music degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2021, under the tutelage of Jane Atkins and Hector Scott. She teaches privately and for Fife Council as an upper strings instructor, and is a member of Kosonen Ranieri Duo, Flichterin, an alt-folk duo with harpist Sam MacAdam, and co-founder of Women in Chamber Music. She is currently a doctoral research student at Edinburgh Napier University in the School of Arts and Creative Industries, specializing in community music, music education and pedagogy.
Mianoora Kosonen is a Finnish pianist and accompanist, a recent graduate from the Master of Arts program at the RCS , having studied piano accompaniment under the tutelage of Scott Mitchell. In 2020 Mianoora graduated from the Bachelor of Music Program, having studied piano performance with pianists Sinae Lee, Isobel Anderson, and Victor Sangiorgio. Before moving to Scotland in 2016 Mianoora graduated from the Helsinki Conservatory, having studied on the piano performance course with Antti Hotti. Mianoora is a seasoned chamber musician, and a member of the Kosonen Ranieri Duo, and co-founder and performer for Women in Chamber Music.
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