ISATA KANNEH-MASON
PIANOMANAGED IN ASSOCIATION WITH
ENTICOTT MUSIC MANAGEMENT
ISATA KANNEH-MASON
PIANO
MANAGED IN ASSOCIATION WITH
ENTICOTT MUSIC MANAGEMENT
ABOUT
Pianist 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 the 23/24 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, Stockholm Philharmonic, and Academy of St Martin in the Fields. 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.
In 2022/23 Isata made successful debuts at the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore halls in London, the Philharmonie Berlin, National Concert Hall Dublin, Perth Concert Hall and Prinzregententheater Munich. As concerto soloist, she appeared with orchestras such as the New World Symphony Miami, City of Birmingham Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, Geneva Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic and was the Artist in Residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Isata is a Decca Classics recording artist. Her 2019 album, Romance – the Piano Music of Clara Schumann, entered the UK classical charts at No. 1, Gramophone magazine extolling the recording as “one of the most charming and engaging debuts”. This was followed by 2021’s Summertime, featuring 20th-century American repertoire including a world premiere recording of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Impromptu in B minor and 2023’s endearingly titled album Childhood Tales is a tour-de-force showcase of music inspired by a nostalgia for youth.
2021 also saw the release of Isata’s first duo album, Muse, with her brother Sheku Kanneh-Mason, demonstrating the siblings’ musical empathy and rapport borne from years of playing and performing together. Isata and Sheku were selected to perform in recital during the 2020 BBC Proms, which was a vastly reduced festival due to the Covid-19 pandemic and they performed for cameras to an empty auditorium. 2023 sees her BBC Proms solo debut, this time to a fully open Royal Albert Hall, alongside Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Isata was an ECHO Rising Star in 21/22 performing in many of Europe’s finest halls and she is also the recipient of the coveted Leonard Bernstein Award, an Opus Klassik award for best young artist and is one of the Konzerthaus Dortmund’s Junge Wilde artists.
RECENT PRAISE
THE TIMES
REBECCA FRANKS
She still brought the same stamina and virtuosity, propelling us through the bustling first movement and unleashing her power…in the finale. Yet here she found more freedom and flexibility, more colour and nuance. A real sense of joy too, and welcome glimpses of her individuality.
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
She is a pianist who makes lines sing beautifully and virtuosic passages dance, finding intimacy and eloquence at telling moments…[in the Concerto] Kanneh-Mason matches what we know of Clara’s own approach, which was to forget ego and put everything at the service of the music,
GRAMOPHONE
It ranks among the most charming engaging debuts I can recall…She brings weight and emotional heft to this uneven work [the Concerto] that are entirely convincing, and is well matched in the exuberant finale by Holly Mathieson and the RLPO…but it is the performances of the two song transcriptions that show what a gifted musician Kanneh-Mason is.
VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE
An additional treat was seeing him perform with his sister Isata, three years his elder. There could be few more riveting experiences than witnessing the strength, passion and assured virtuosity in a cellist so young. Even more important was how much love and feeling he expressed for the music he was playing, never shying from lyrical depth and expressive nuance, and supported to a tee by his sister.
NEWS
Isata Kanneh-Mason Stars in Carnegie Hall’s New Summer Concert Festival – World Orchestra Week 2024
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),
Isata Kanneh-Mason Stars in Sheila Heyman’s ‘FANNY: THE OTHER MENDELSSOHN’
Take a celebrated musical genius, sibling rivalry, an unknown manuscript, some very persistent research and one sensational revelation, and what have you got? FANNY: THE OTHER MENDELSSOHN – the documentary from BAFTA-winning director Sheila Hayman that features global Decca star, Isata Kanneh-Mason. The film reveals the extraordinary story of Fanny,
The 2023 BBC Proms are Announced!
The 2023 BBC Proms, “the world’s greatest classical music festival”, return with 71 concerts throughout the UK from 14 July through The Last Night of the Proms celebration, featuring cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, on 9 September. Conductors Semyon Bychkov, Vladimir Jurowski, Jaime Martín and Vasily Petrenko; pianists Kirill Gerstein and Isata
Decca Classics Announces Isata Kanneh-Mason’s Third Album: ‘Childhood Tales’
Decca Classics has announced that pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason’s third album Childhood Tales will be released worldwide on 26 May 2023. The first single, Mozart’s Variation 11: Adagio from Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman”, is out today. Isata evokes the magic of childhood in this charming collection of nostalgic music. The album is centred around Ernő Dohnányi’s rarely
Leif Ove Andsnes, Mitsuko Uchida, Semyon Bychkov and Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason Are Shortlisted in Limelight’s 2022 Recording of the Year
Enticott Music Management and IMG Artists celebrate having six artists feature in the Limelight 2022 Recording of the Year shortlist. Twenty-five recordings have been nominated and divided into five categories: Orchestral, Chamber, Instrumental, Vocal and Opera. Semyon Bychkov is nominated in the Orchestral category for Mahler: Symphony No 4. The album, featuring Chen Reiss and
ISATA KANNEH-MASON PRESENTS SPARKLING SECOND ALBUM “SUMMERTIME”
Isata Kanneh-Mason presents her sparkling second album, Summertime, a diverse exploration of the musical landscape of 20th-century America. Following on from her award-winning, debut album Romance, a portrait of Clara Schumann that landed at the top of the UK Classical Chart on its release in 2019, 25-year-oldBritish pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason presents her vibrant second album Summertime,
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