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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
Isata and Sheku receive Global Awards Nominations
We are so excited that both Isata and Sheku have received nominations in the 2020 Global Awards!
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has been awarded an MBE
We are thrilled to announce that Sheku Kanneh-Mason has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours for services to music and has made the following statement: “To be awarded the MBE for services to music is amazing. I was so lucky to have the dedicated support of...
Watch The Kanneh-Masons on the 2019 Royal Variety Performance
Watch The Kanneh-Masons amazing performance of Monti's Czardas at the Royal Variety Performance 2019! The show is also available on BritBoxTV, and on BBC Australia on 12th Dec
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Announces New Album ‘Elgar’
Sheku Kanneh-Mason has announced his new album Elgar will be released on 10 January 2020. Elgar is a brand new album of works anchored around Elgar’s Cello Concerto, arguably the best-known work in the classical canon written for solo cello, which was first performed...