La Jolla Music Society
Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Isata Kanneh-Mason
Prelude Lecture by Michael Gerdes · 6:30 PM
“A profound and greatly gifted artist who radiates warmth, joy, and much-needed musical sunshine”
– Gramophone
Two extravagantly talented Kanneh-Mason siblings join forces to bring us a concert of classical beauty and innovation.
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s career and performances span the globe. Whether performing for children in a school hall, at an underground club or in the world’s leading concert venues, Sheku’s mission is to make music accessible to all. After winning the BBC Young Musician competition in 2016, Sheku’s performance at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Windsor Castle in 2018 was watched by two billion people worldwide.
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.