Ranita Klimach recently graduated from the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Simon Rayner, John Ryan, Nigel Black, and Sue Dent. She began playing French horn at the age of nine before receiving a full scholarship to Forest School, where she studied with Chris Davies. Ranita then pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Music and German Studies at the University of Birmingham with Pete Dyson as her horn tutor and studied natural horn with Anneke Scott. During her third year, Ranita studied in Berlin at the Humboldt Universität, receiving tuition from Dmitry Babanov at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler.
Ranita has won prizes in various competitions, such as the University of Birmingham Summer Festival Concerto Competition and the Reginald Turner Memorial Cup with an ‘outstanding’ mark in the Senior Recital Class of the Stratford and East London Music Festival, as well as their prestigious Millennium Cup and a ‘commended’ mark in the Concerto Class. More recently, Ranita was the Brass Finalist in the Spring 2015 Concerto Competition at the Royal College of Music. Ranita has given recitals with her regular duo partner, William Bosworth, throughout the UK in venues such as Carr’s Lane Church, Edgbaston Old Church, and Churchill, Clare, and Magdalene Colleges, Cambridge. Ranita’s début concerto performance was Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 3 with the University of Birmingham Summer Festival Sinfonia in 2011.
In addition to recital performances, Ranita is active as an orchestral player across the UK and Germany. Whilst on her Erasmus year abroad she played Principal Horn in the Symphonisches Orchester der Humboldt Universität, the Studentische Philharmonie der Humboldt Universität, and the Junge Philharmonie Kreuzberg, and has played in both the City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Orchestra and Academy during her years in Birmingham. She has worked with conductors such as John Wilson, Jac van Steen, Alexander Vedernikov, and Andrew Litton in venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Sage Gateshead, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, and the Berlin Konzerthaus.
Ranita’s first recording Grief Never Grows Old took place in Abbey Road Studios in conjunction with Sir Cliff Richard and the National Children’s Orchestra as part of the 2005 Tsunami Appeal. Most recently, Ranita was involved in recording the soundtrack for Wander computer game with fellow RCM students.
