Carnegie Hall has announced their new summer concert festival – World Orchestra Week (WOW!), a celebration of international youth orchestras – scheduled to take place this August 2024. Inspired by the Hall’s three critically acclaimed national youth ensembles – the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA), NYO2, and NYO Jazz – this ambitious international initiative brings five youth orchestras from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America to New York City for high-level music making with some of today’s most internationally-renowned artists plus cultural exchange activities among the orchestras over the course of one week.
As part of Carnegie Hall’s World Orchestra Week, acclaimed pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason joins conductor Iván Fischer and the European Union Youth Orchestra for a performance on Tuesday 6 August, 7PM EST. For her debut on the Perelman Stage, Isata stars as soloist in Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25. The programme also features Anna Clyne’s Masquerade and G. Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.
Click here to read Carnegie Hall’s WOW! press release.
Isata Kanneh-Mason is in great demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She offers eclectic and interesting repertoire with recital programmes encompassing music from Haydn and Mozart via Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, Chopin and Brahms to Gershwin and beyond. In concerto, she is equally at home in Felix Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann (whose piano concerto featured on Isata’s chart-topping debut recording) as in Prokofiev and Dohnányi.
Highlights of her 2023/24 season include performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, London Mozart Players, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on tour in the USA and Germany, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and Stockholm Philharmonic. With her cellist brother, Sheku, she appears in recital in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in addition to an extensive European recital tour. Isata also gives a series of solo recitals on tour in the USA and Canada as well as at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Lucerne Festival, and across Germany.
Photo Credit: David Venni, Carnegie Hall