Английская Википедия:Isata Kanneh-Mason

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Isata Kanneh-Mason Шаблон:IPA[1] (born May 1996) is a British pianist. She is the sister of and frequent collaborator with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason. She has been described as "one of today's most in-demand classical musicians".[2]

Early life and education

Kanneh-Mason grew up in Nottingham, England. She is the first child of Stuart Mason, from London, a luxury hotel business manager of Antiguan descent,[3][4] and Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh, from Sierra Leone, a former lecturer at the University of Birmingham and author of the 2020 book House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons.[5][6]

Isata attended the Purcell School, before earning a place to study at the Royal Academy of Music on the prestigious Sir Elton John Scholarship. She later performed with the rock star himself in Los Angeles in 2013.

Career

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.

Kanneh-Mason made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, playing Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto #3 with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.[7]

Kanneh-Mason records for Decca Records.

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