KONYA KANNEH-MASON

Konya Kanneh-Mason held The Gilling Family Scholarship at The Royal Academy of Music, where she studied piano with Tessa Nicholson. She also plays violin. Konya will publish her debut children’s novel in the autumn of 2027 with Guppy Books.

Konya has played solo recitals around the UK, and concerti including Mozart K414, Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2, Schumann Piano Concerto and Mozart’s Triple Piano Concerto No 7 (K242) with two of her sisters. She played Mozart Piano Concerto No 23 with The Orchestra of the Restoration in 2022 and has performed in concert tours of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, USA and Canada, Europe with her siblings. Konya has also appeared with her siblings at the 2018 BAFTAs and at the 2021 BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London performing Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals and Revel by Daniel Kidane.  She also played in Carnival of the Animals at London’s Barbican in 2025, performing Isata Kanneh-Mason’s Hiraeth in 2024 and Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2 in Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall in 2025.  

She has appeared on numerous television and radio programmes, including the BAFTAs, Britain’s Got Talent, The One Show, the BBC4 documentary, Young, Gifted and Classical, the CBS documentary for Sunday Morning, USA, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, CBS 60 Minutes and the Imagine documentary for BBC 1, This House is Full of Music. She has also performed on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune, The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), and Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1). In 2023 she co-presented a radio programme for Classic FM, The Kanneh-Mason Family Takeover.

Konya has recorded on the Decca Classics album, Carnival.  Whilst she is still an active musician, she is also pursuing the career of an author and is currently writing children’s books.

Konya is very grateful to Frank White of Ladystone Violins, the Nottingham Soroptimist Trust, the Nottingham Education Trust, to Mr and Mrs John Brydon, and to the Gilling family.