FURANO, Rina

Rina Furano, known by the mononym Furano, is a Viennese composer and writer living in Paris, France. She is the author of over 500 musical works spanning multiple genres, many commissioned. Her classical compositions, the majority of her oeuvre, cover nearly every instrumentation from solo lied to symphonies. Other inventions include a novel double-pedalling technique for the piano and the expansion of the traditional sonata form.

At present she is working on a didactic book and software formalising the Music Visual Scale, a thinking method that allows for intuitive visualisation of musical processes, principles and proportions.

Since early 2023, Furano has been professionally involved in the training, research and development of Artificial Intelligence, working on multimodal machine learning projects by technology companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta. She has served as a music consultant and also contributed 400,000+ words of original writing to over a dozen projects.

Furano has been published in international newspapers and magazines, such as Die Presse (Austria) and The Critic (UK), writing about music, technology and the culture business. Since 2017, she has been active as a consultant for various record labels (classical and jazz) in the US.



The beginnings were traditional. After completing her studies in the UK, she returned to her native Vienna in 2011 to found the Neue Wiener Klassik movement. Its aim was to restore craftsmanship and beauty in contemporary composition through the production of new serious music capable of sustaining itself in the free market. The movement caused a stir in the Viennese cultural scene and beyond – not least through the composer's energetic pianism and the music's innovations. In 2023, Furano moved to Paris to re-centre her work around creation rather than performance.
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