Sheku Kanneh-Mason burst onto the world stage when he was seen by 2 billion people performing at the 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, when he was 19. It wasn’t a fluke.
From age 9, he was a scholarship student at London’s Royal Academy of Music, where five of his six siblings have studied, commuting from their home in Nottingham on weekends.
Sheku has performed at the BBC Proms every year since 2017. In 2020, Sheku was the first cellist ever to have an album reach the UK’s Top Ten. He received an MBE honor for service to music in 2021 (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire).
At 27, Isata Kanneh-Mason is the oldest of the seven Kanneh-Mason siblings. is a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music, where her scholarship was supported by Sir Elton John with whom she has performed in concert. Her first Decca album, a celebration of Clara Schumann’s music, debuted at #1 on the UK’s classical music charts in 2019. Her 2021 duet album with Sheku includes Barber and Rachmaninoff cello sonatas.
Isata has been artist-in-residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and in the United States has performed with the Baltimore Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra (February 9 – March 2, 2024), among many others. She made her BBC Proms debut in 2023 playing Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto #3, a moth after releasing her third Decca album.
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