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DECCA CLASSICS ANNOUNCES THE KANNEH-MASONS’ NEW ALBUM RIVER OF MUSIC
Decca Classics announces River of Music the new album from “musical marvels” the Kanneh-Masons (The Guardian), set for release on 12 September 2025. Reuniting all seven siblings – Isata, Braimah, Sheku, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata and Mariatu – River of Music marks their...
Jeneba signs to Sony Classical for first recital album, releasing 2025
Sony said: Sony Classical is delighted to announce the exclusive signing of pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, who records her first recital album this year for release in Spring 2025. The 21-year-old British pianist has already impressed critics with her “poetry and...
Antigua 2024
Our first musical visit to the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda came in the Spring of 2017. Being of Antiguan descent, we had been regularly staying with grandparents and visiting family in Antigua since early childhood, but for these two weeks we were...
Carols by Candlelight
Aled Jones hosts Classic FM’s Carols by Candlelight with Viking, an exclusive carol concert featuring the choir of St Bartholomew-the-Great under music director Rupert Gough and featuring Braimah and Konya Kanneh-Mason, available on the Global player here
The Hills are Alive
The Kanneh-Mason family visit Austria to walk in the footsteps of Hollywood’s most famous singing family, the von Trapps from The Sound of Music. All nine members of the Kanneh-Mason family (including mum Kadiatu and dad Stuart) visit the key movie locations and...
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason announced as recipient of the ISM’s Distinguished Musician Award
‘I am thrilled to be chosen for the ISM’s Distinguished Musician Award. It is such an honour and I am absolutely delighted. I have always believed that music is a fundamental right for all children and I will continue to be an...
Decca Classics announces Isata Kanneh-Mason’s third album: ‘Childhood Tales’ to be released worldwide on 26 May 2023
Continuing her developing legacy with Decca Classics that began in 2019, this album uses Dolby Atmos Technology to capture Isata’s signature virtuosic flair. The first single, Mozart’s Variation 11: Adagio from Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman”, is out...
“Don’t call him ‘the black Mozart’ — Braimah Kanneh-Mason on his hero
As seen in The Times 10.3.23 Neil Fisher Joseph Bologne was a violinist, composer, fencer and friend of Marie Antoinette. Now his untold story is being uncovered by a British star Braimah Kanneh-Mason is the second oldest of the Kanneh-Masons, the prodigious clan from...
Mercury Studios Sets Feature Documentary on Sister of Composer Felix Mendelssohn
Mercury Studios, the production company behind recent Abbey Road Studios doc “If These Walls Could Sing,” have unveiled their new feature, about composer Felix Mendelssohn’s genius sister Fanny. Although Felix, who is best known for writing “The Wedding March,” is...
‘The Kanneh-Mason Family Takeover’ launches on Sunday 26 February at 9pm on Classic FM, with the first episode hosted by pianist and eldest sibling, Isata Kanneh-Mason.
The UK’s most extraordinary musical family, the Kanneh-Masons, are joining Classic FM to host their own radio series. Launching on Sunday 26 February at 9pm, The Kanneh-Mason Family Takeover sees all nine members of the hugely talented family make their debut radio...
Sheku and Zak Abel play BBC’s Strictly…
On Sunday 13th November, Sheku and his singer friend Zak Abel took to the BBC Strictly stage to perform their single "Same Boat". You can watch the performance here
Kadiatu and Samuel Etienne at the Bloomberg UK Equality Summit
A wonderful interview between Kadiatu and the brilliant Samuel Etienne at the Bloomberg Equality Summit in London on October 18 2022 talking all things music, equality, inclusion, motherhood, identity and work... you can watch it in full Here
The Australia Tour
The Kanneh-Mason family make their Australian debut in August 2022 with a series of concerts, please see "Live" for all details and ticket links. "For these reasons, and for my other observations above, and for a vague suspicion that in being there we might have...
Sheku & Isata US/Canada tour – Spring 2022
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Global Awards 2022
Sheku and Isata scoop two of the five nominations in the Global Awards 2022 BEST CLASSICAL ARTIST category! #siblings
A Musical Family Christmas: BBC2 at 8:35pm Christmas Day 25/12/21 and on BBCiPlayer
Spend Christmas with the Kanneh-Mason family! Coming home to Nottingham for the festive period, their unique seasonal celebration is a fusion of family traditions from the UK, Sierra Leone and the Caribbean. They perform their favourite festive music such as ‘Mary’s...
Kadie wins prestigious RPS Award
At a ceremony held in London's Wigmore Hall last night, it was announced that the winner of the Royal Philharmonic Storytelling Award was Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason for her memoir House of Music - Raising the Kanneh-Masons, 'a fresh, moving account of raising children and...
Sheku and Isata release first duo album MUSE
".....in the Adagio, beyond the central tarantella-like Presto (where Isata is especially brilliant), Sheku’s playing reaches the sort of lofty emotional peak you’d have expected from a du Pré or a Navarra." Gramophone Magazine. Sheku and Isata loved performing the...
Jeneba makes her BBC Proms debut!
Performing with Chineke! under the baton of the wonderful Kalena Bovell, Jeneba made her debut at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms 2021 on Tuesday 24th August playing Florence Price's Concerto in One Movement. Barry Millington in London's Evening...
Summertime…..
Isata's beautiful new album Summertime is out now! For lots more information including track listing and a link to buy, please click on her name in the About section above.
Today’s the day – Kadie’s updated memoir – out in paperback!
Click on the House of Music tab in the bar above for details....
The Kanneh-Masons awarded Best Classical Artist in the Global Awards 2021
"We are absolutely thrilled to have won ‘Best Classical Artist’ at this year’s Global Awards! A big thank you to all who have supported us in the last twelve months, particularly the teams at Enticott Music Management and at Decca Classics and to all those who have...
Isata plays Beethoven Third Piano Concerto with Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé
During the first lockdown in 2019, Isata was due to have made her debut at London's Royal Albert Hall playing this wonderful concerto. Instead, she and her siblings adapted the orchestral score to suit the available instruments and performed the first movement in one...
Isata receives Leonard Bernstein award from Schleswig Holstein Festival 2021
"Isata Kanneh-Mason inspires us from the first note. Her expressive piano playing has a captivating effect and leaves no doubt that she will soon be one of the very great pianists. We are very pleased to present this year's Leonard Bernstein Award to this outstanding...
Sheku receives Official Chart award for Elgar – UK’s biggest specialist classical album of 2020
In 2020, Sheku became the highest-charting cellist of all time in the UK (reaching Number 8), and the first cellist in history to break into the Top 10 of the Official Albums Chart. On 29th January 2021, he was presented with the all new Specialist Number 1 Award:...
Another chance to see the Kanneh-Masons perform as part of the Barbican’s “Concerts On Demand” series
"A treat to hear snapshots of such talented musicians at different stages" The Times, 23 October 2020 On October 22, forming part of the Barbican's live-streamed concert series, the Kanneh-Masons appeared in different combinations to take on a wide-ranging programme...
Congratulations to Sheku for winning coveted 2020 RPS Young Artists Award
The 2020 RPS awards were held in a special digital presentation on 18 November featuring performances filmed at London's Wigmore Hall. The RPS said "Winners represent a nation of inspirational musicians: cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, raised in Nottingham, receives the...
The family play on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing Remembrance Sunday show
On Sunday, November 8th, the Kanneh-Masons were thrilled to play their arrangement of Ave Maria for two of the show's professional dancers, culminating in a beautiful and atmospheric "poppy-drop". Watched by nearly 10 million viewers as it screened, you can catch up...
Carnival – The Kanneh-Mason Family’s First Album – Available Friday, 6 November on Decca!
Decca Classics announces the release of Carnival, a very special collaboration between Academy Award-winning actor Olivia Colman, children’s author Michael Morpurgo and the seven “extraordinarily talented” (Classic FM) Kanneh-Mason siblings – Isata, Braimah, Sheku,...
The Kanneh-Mason family in concert
Forming part of the Barbican's live-streamed concert series, the Kanneh-Masons will appear in different combinations to take on a wide-ranging programme of their favourite music for piano and strings from the last 300 years, before coming together for a Fiddler on the...