Sheku Kanneh-Mason

[andrewc]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheku_Kanneh-Mason


This chap is now a Young Artist in Residence with the RLPO, and he's very,very good.   I heard him play the Elgar cello concerto a couple of weeks ago,  and last night he played sonatas by Bocherinni, Poulenc, Debussy & Brahms accompanied by his sister Isata on piano.  Demand for the tickets was so much they had to move the performance to the main hall & they got a rapturous reception.  Really good emotional playing.   My regular seat is row C in the front stalls so I was really close.   


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnvJiRa7Y40


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6GJgOXBi2U&frags=pl%2Cwn


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dep1ZpMa3nM&frags=pl%2Cwn

[andrewc]

This was what he & his sister played as an encore last week.


https://twitter.com/ShekuKM/status/1071015637563179009

[De Sisti]

He had a good start in music. Both his parents were musicians (I believe).

[phantasmagoriana]

He has six siblings, too, and they're all musicians. Talented family for sure. http://www.kannehmasons.com/

[andrewc]

Two concerts today,  the first by the RLPO Youth Orchestra with Sheku Kanneh-Mason doing the Faure Elegie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMxgcC4jpts   & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLd9PcZW5PQ



Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra with Sheku Kanneh-Mason


Beethoven Symphony No.1*
Fauré Élégie for cello and orchestra
Mahler Totenfeier
Copland Danzón Cubano


Andrew Manze *conductor
Simon Emery conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello
Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra


Later on Sheku & Isata playing



Beethoven Cello Sonata No.4 in C major, Op.102 No.1
Lutosławski Grave
Barber Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op.6
Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op.19


With an encore by Bloch Prayer from Jewish Life. 


Wonderful performance, my hardened muso friends were enthralled. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzr-XT1GB70&frags=pl%2Cwn