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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 advocate for inclusion in music...
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...
Kadie Kanneh-Mason’s memoir published 3rd September
House of Music is a moving and inspirational account of determination, music and love. It is a story about race, immigration and education. It is the story of a mother and her family. And it is the story of her children, seven phenomenally talented musicians.
Family takes centre stage in ground-breaking BBC1 Imagine film
Imagine: This House is Full of Music screened on BBC One, July 12 2020, is the first “remote access” Imagine film. Using remote cameras for all its footage at their home and filmed over the course of only one day, this is a unique and intimate portrait of the...
Sheku wins Best Classical Artist at The Global Awards 2020
"Thank you very much to all of you who voted for me in the category of Best Classical Artist in this year’s Global Awards. Your support is greatly appreciated and I’m honoured and delighted to receive this award.
Isata plays London’s Southbank
Isata's performance has just been announced in the forthcoming Southbank Classical Season; she's in great company...
Sheku releases his new album “Elgar”
The album, released on Decca Classics, includes the Elgar Cello Concerto