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Sheku Kanneh-Mason

April 2024

  • The Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall

    The Guardian view on patriotism and the Last Night of the Proms: time for a change

    For years, Rule, Britannia! has had a divisive presence in the festival. It should make way for other anthems of national identity

March 2023

  • Claire Booth In the Realms of Sorrow LHF 2023 © Camilla Greenwell 28 February – 3 March In the Realms of Sorrow London Handel Festival James Laing, Patrick Terry, Nardus Williams, Soraya Mafi, Claire Booth and dancer Jonathon Luke Baker Laurence Cummings- Musical Director Adele Thomas - Director Emma Woods - Choreographer

    The week in classical: In the Realms of Sorrow; Alexander’s Feast; Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Bloch – review

    The raw, ravishing power of four solo cantatas is taken to the next level at the London Handel festival, while young star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason works overtime

September 2022

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason with his cello

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason: ‘There was a time when I played in the bathroom’

    Ahead of his appearance at the Last Night of the Proms, the cellist talks about growing up in a house full of musicians, and his love of Tupac and Arsenal

August 2021

  • Kanneh-Masons/Michael Morpurgo et al at the Family Prom (Saint-Saens carnival of the animals) August 2021

    The family prom review: Poetry, pranks and a graceful Elephant

    All seven Kanneh-Mason siblings shared the stage with Lemn Sissay, Michael Morpurgo and musicians including Mark Simpson to present a lively family prom featuring works by Saint-Saëns and Daniel Kidane

June 2021

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason was the first black winner of the 2016 BBC Young Musician award and played at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan.

    Acclaimed British cellist has passport cancelled by Home Office

    Spokesperson apologises to 22-year-old musician Sheku Kanneh-Mason for error and pledges to issue replacement

May 2021

  • Kevin John Edusei conducts Chineke! at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 28 May.

    Fate Now Conquers: Kanneh-Mason/Chineke!/Edusei review – fine sounds of celebration

    Chineke! Orchestra had the deserved honour of welcoming audiences back to the venue, with work inspired by BLM protests and a swashbuckling finale

November 2020

  • Kylie Minogue performing on The Graham Norton Show this month.

    Kylie, Cher, Robbie Williams and more team up for Children in Need single

    Cover of Oasis’s Stop Crying Your Heart Out also features Nile Rodgers, Lenny Kravitz and Jess Glynne among 25 star performers

October 2020

  • The Kanneh-Mason siblings (Isata Kanneh-Mason piano, Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin, Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello, Konya Kanneh-Mason violin/piano, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason cello/piano, Aminata Kanneh-Mason violin, Mariatu Kanneh-Mason celloperfin perform Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio No 1 in C minor, Op 8, Franz Schubert Impromptu No 4 in A-flat major, D899, Impromptu No 4 in F minor, D935, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Mélodie, Op 42 No 3, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat major, K502 Mvt III, Samuel Barber Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op 6 Mvt I, George Gershwin Three Preludes, Eric Whitacre The Seal Lullaby, Jerry Bock, arr Kanneh-Masons Fiddler on the Roof medley in the Barbican Hall on Thursday 22 Oct. 2020. Photo by Mark Allan

    The Kanneh-Mason Family review – varied programme gives each sibling a chance to shine

    Seven musical marvels delivered a warm informal show, attended both in person and virtually, in which cellist Sheku and pianist Isata provided particular highlights

August 2020

  • Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy Live at Bold Tendencies

    Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason; Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy review – sky-high thinking

    Two world-class duos performed intimate recitals in the setting sun as this trailblazing venue came into its own

July 2020

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) with the-Philharmonia orchestra and John Wilson June 2020

    House music
    House music: Rian Evans' watching and listening highlights

    This week, live performances from Glasgow are energising and powerful, Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns to the concert hall, while Barenboim’s Wagner and the late, great Mariss Jansons are among the highlights of the archived Proms season
  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason performing at Harry and Meghan’s wedding in Windsor on 19th May 2018.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: inside the most musical house in Britain

    Alan Yentob visits the Kanneh-Masons in Nottingham, whose seven children are prodigiously talented instrumentalists. Plus: Romesh Ranganathan’s Misadventures From My Sofa. Here’s what to watch this evening
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    On my radar
    On my radar: Sheku Kanneh-Mason's cultural highlights

    Muhammad Ali on film, classical music on Instagram and a dessert to die for – the cellist shares his recent discoveries

January 2020

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason

    Royal wedding cellist calls for action on diversity in music

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a British cellist who won the 2016 BBC Young Musician of the Year award. He was the first black musician to win the award since its launch 38 years earlier. He played at the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on 19 May 2018 under the direction of Christopher Warren-Green. Observer Food Monthly OFM

    Life on a plate
    Sheku Kanneh-Mason: ‘I once made pasta in a kettle. I wouldn’t recommend it’

October 2019

  • André de Ridder conducts the Southbank Sinfonia for BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified Live

    The week in classical: Unclassified Live; Orpheus and Eurydice; Isata Kanneh-Mason – review

    Radio 3’s late-night show took to the stage in a vibrant, mind-expanding evening, while Wayne McGregor’s ENO debut is all about the dance

May 2019

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason, soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, at the Anvil.

    The week in classical: the Anvil at 25; Semele; Symphonie fantastique – review

    The excellent Anvil celebrates its quarter century with flair not fanfare, Handel’s a hit at Ally Pally, and more Berlioz fireworks

January 2019

  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

    Unfazed: royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on a life-changing year

    Inspiring others ‘who look like me’ to take up music just as important as fame, says teenager

July 2018

  • Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who won the BBC Young Musician award 2016. Photographed at St John's Smith Square in London, September 2016 Commissioned for Film and Music

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a state school success story. He may never have a successor

    Cuts to music A-levels and GCSEs could endanger the supply of teachers and performers and make the subject elitist again

June 2018

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    Royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason wins two Classic Brits

    Awards celebrate 18-year-old who played at marriage of Duke and Duchess of Sussex

May 2018

  • ‘I felt like a veteran’ … Sheku Kanneh-Mason

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the royal wedding cellist, and other young musicians on a life-changing day

    One overslept, one played in cowboy boots and one’s next gig is the royal wedding … five past winners of BBC Young Musician relive the thrill of the competition
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