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, his mission is to make music accessible to all. After winning the BBC Young Musician competition in 2016, his performance at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Windsor Castle in 2018 was watched by two billion people worldwide.

Highlights of the 2023–24 season include the Last Night of the Proms with the BBC Symphony and appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orquesta Nacional de España, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic on tour in Germany, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony. He makes his solo debut with the San Francisco Symphony with these performances, having previously appeared twice on the Great Performers Series, first in recital with his sister, Isata, and then on tour with the City of Birmingham Symphony and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

This season with Isata, he appears in recital in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, in addition to a European recital tour. He also performs a series of duo recitals with guitarist Plínio Fernandes, continues his solo cello recital tour in the United States and Canada, and returns to Antigua, where he has family connections, as an ambassador for the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Kanneh-Mason is a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with Hannah Roberts, and in 2022 was appointed as the Academy’s first Menuhin Visiting Professor of Performance Mentoring. He is an ambassador for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Future Talent, and Music Masters, and was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List. He plays a Matteo Goffriller cello from 1700, which is on indefinite loan to him, and is a Decca Classics recording artist.

Isata Kanneh-Mason debuted at the BBC Proms in 2023 and was invited to open the festival in 2024 with the BBC Symphony. Highlights of her 2024–25 season include the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie’s Freispiel festival, Ulster Orchestra’s season opening concert, and the Chineke! Orchestra on tour at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, Brussels’s Bozar, and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. She also solos with the London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Bremen Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, Residentie Orkest, and North Carolina Symphony. Solo recital appearances include the Lucerne Festival, Piano aux Jacobins Toulouse, and Schumann-Haus Düsseldorf.

Recent performances include the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, NCPA Orchestra Beijing, Royal Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and Stockholm Philharmonic. She appeared in recital at the Beethoven Bonn and Rheingau festivals, as well as at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Boston’s Jordan Hall. Kanneh-Mason is a Decca Classics artist and has recorded four solo albums for the label. Her latest release presents music from two Mendelssohn siblings, including the First Piano Concerto by Felix and the long-lost Easter Sonata by Fanny, alongside transcriptions of some of Felix’s most famous music by Rachmaninoff and Liszt.

Kanneh-Mason has received the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and an Opus Klassik award for best young artist. She also enjoys composing and arranging and released two collections of her favorite works for intermediate and advanced piano students through ABRSM Publishing. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut with Sheku on the Great Performers Series in April 2022.