Last week Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Tomorrow, Carnegie Hall, New York. In a year of firsts for the 18-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, winner of BBC Young Musician 2016, these latest debuts are hard to beat. On Wednesday, to an excited capacity crowd, he played Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major, Op 107 (1959) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by that other irresistible new star, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. Sheku and Mirga: an astounding double act whose youth, verve and diversity challenge classical stereotypes in one joyful swoop.

Click to read “The Sheku and Mirga show” at The Guardian