Episode 41: THE PILGRIMAGE - Part 5: WAITING ROOM - with Hania Rani

The final installment of a five-part pilgrimage to the 2026 BIG EARS festival . At Big Ears, the Polish pianist and composer moved between two modes: the orchestral expansiveness of her piano concerto Non Fiction with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and the arpeggiated synth patterns of her solo electronic alter ego Chilling Bambino —a love letter to her Prophet 8 and a chance to escape the…