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Ran Dank (born April 3, 1982) is an Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, US.

Dank started playing the piano at the age of seven with Yaakov Krantz. He went on to work with Liora Peleg at the Givaataim Conservatory, and from 1994 until 2002 he studied with Professor Vadim Monastirsky of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. In the years 2000–2003 Dank has served under a special musician status in the Israeli Defense Forces.

From 2004 to 2005, Dank attended the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he received his BA in music, studying with Professor Emanuel Krasovsky.

In 2005–07, Dank left his native Israel for the first time, to study at the Juilliard School in New York. Under the tutelage of Professors Emanuel Ax and Joseph Kalichstein, he was awarded his M.M degree in 2007.