AMINATA KANNEH-MASON

Aminata is twenty years old and has won a scholarship to study violin with Joshua Fisher at The Royal Academy of Music from September 2026. She previously attended Rose Bruford College studying acting, and The Primary and Junior Royal Academy of Music for six years, where she studied violin and piano. Aminata gained Grade 8 distinction on the violin and Grade 8 on the piano aged 11 and 12, and received drama, theatre and acting direction with Ellis Jones.

At the BBC Proms 2021, Aminata performed Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saëns) and Revel (Kidane) with the Kanneh-Masons at The Royal Albert Hall. Shealso played violin in Carnival of the Animals at The Barbican in 2025. Aminata has performed throughout the UK, and in the Caribbean, playing solo and chamber music. As a concerto soloist, she has played Mozart Violin Concerto in G with The Orchestra of the Restoration and Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 with Djanogly Orchestra in 2019. She has also performed in Australia, the USA and Canada, Europe, and Antigua and Barbuda with the Kanneh-Masons.

Aminata has appeared on several television and radio programmes with her siblings, including the BBC4 documentary, Young, Gifted and Classical, The One Show, (BBC1), The BBC Proms (BBC2 and BBC4), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), and Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1). She is featured, with The Kanneh- Masons, in a USA documentary, Sunday Morning, by CBS Television and the Imagine documentary for BBC1, This House is Full of Music. She is also featured, with her family in CBS 60 Minutes, aired in December 2025.

She has  recorded on the albums, Carnival, and River of Music for Decca Classics.  In 2023 she co-presented a radio programme on Classic FM entitled The Kanneh-Mason Family Takeover.