Rania Ejeilat is a pianist and music educator from Amman, Jordan, currently living in Wangen, Germany, where she serves on the piano and accompaniment faculty of the Youth Music School Württembergisches Allgäu (JMS). She taught at the National Music Conservatory in Amman, Jordan for ten years, teaching piano, music theory and musicianship for both the undergraduate and pre-college programs and founding the Music Salon, which brings together musicians across different genres and which she has continued to direct since 2015. Rania obtained her BA in music with honors from the National Music Conservatory in Amman, studying with pianist and conductor Mohammed Uthman Sidiq, and completed her master’s degree in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in 2014 as a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship, studying with Michael Chertock. In 2021, she earned a second masters in art-song interpretation from the University of Music in Trossingen, Germany, where she also studied harpsichord, conducting and piano pedagogy. A first-prizewinner of the International Mozart Piano Competition in Kaslik, Lebanon (2006), she has performed in numerous concerts in Jordan and abroad, both as a soloist, collaborative musician, as well as an orchestral pianist with the Amman Symphony Orchestra/ the Jordan National Orchestra (JOrchestra), for which she was also the program annotator. She also holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Jordan.
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