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Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Cello

Royal Festival Hall, 28-Sep-2025 / 19:45

Barbican Hall, 12-Sep-2025 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 16-May-2025 / 19:30

Wigmore Hall, 26-Apr-2025 / 19:30

Barbican Hall, 7-Mar-2025 / 19:30

Royal Albert Hall, 4th and 5th of August 2024

Favourite Concertos

Elgar's Cello Concerto performed on the 5th of October 2019 at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra being conducted by Susanna Malkki and on the 22nd of August 2019 at the Royal Albert Hall with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and on the 12th of April 2019 at the Cadogan Hall with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra being conducted by Pietari Inkinen.

Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 2 performed on the 15th of October 2024 at the Barbican Hall with the Sinfonia of London being conducted by John Wilson and on the 9th of March 20122 at the Royal Festival Hall with London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Edward Gardner.

Barbican Hall, 28-May-2024 / 19:30

  • Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No 1 in B-flat major
  • Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 5 in D major
  • Fauré: Cello Sonata No 1 in D minor
  • Chopin: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor
  • Isata Kanneh-Mason - Piano

Royal Festival Hall, 11-Apr-2024 / 19:30

  • Weinberg: Cello Concerto in C minor Op.43
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Wigmore Hall, 23-Sep-2023 / 19:30

Recital with guitarist Plinio Fernandes

  • Heitor Villa-Lobos: Aria (Cantilena) from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
  • Radamés Gnattali: Sonata for cello and guitar
  • Leo Brouwer: Sonata for cello and guitar 'The Magic Space'
  • Rafael Marino Arcaro: Elegie à une mémoire oubliée
  • Ástor Piazzolla: Café 1930 and Nightclub 1960 from Histoire du Tango

Royal Albert Hall, 9-Sep-2023 / 18:00

  • Bruch: Kol nidrei Op. 47 (12 mins)

Royal Festival Hall, 8-Jun-2023 / 19:30

  • Beethoven

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 26-Apr-2023 / 19:30

  • Bach:
    • 2 arrangements for cello quartet
    • Komm, süsser Tod, BWV.478 (arr. Kanneh-Mason for cello quintet)
  • Brahms: String Sextet No.1 in B flat Op.18
  • Philharmonia Chamber Players

Wigmore Hall, 15-Mar-2023 / 19:30

  • Bach, Gwilym Simcock, Britten, Leo Brouwer, Edmund Finnis and Gaspar Cassadó

Favourite pieces

Boccamin Boccherini's Cello Sonata No 6 in A major G4 performed in 2020 (Mar) and 2018 (December 2 and 4).

Benjamin Britten's Cello Sonata Op. 65 performed in 2022 (July) and 2021 (March).

Frank Bridge's Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor performed in 2022 (July), 2021 (July and March).

Ravel's III. Lent from Sonata for Violin and Cello performed in 2022 (June), 2020 (December).

Royal Festival Hall, 26-Feb-2023 / 19:30

  • Bloch: Schelomo - Hebraic rhapsody for cello & orchestra
  • Philharmonia Orchestra

Royal Festival Hall, 29-Sep-2022 / 19:30

  • Haydn

Wigmore Hall, 24-Sep-2022 / 19:30

  • Mozart: Duo for violin and viola K423
  • Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47
  • Beethoven: Duet for viola and cello in E flat WoO. 32 'With two eyeglasses obbligato'
  • Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60

Sheku Kanneh-Mason concerts, unfortunately, cancelled due to the pandemic

On the 26th of July 2020 at the Wigmore Hall.

On the 12th of July 2020 at the Wigmore Hall.

Royal Albert Hall, 10-Sep-2022 / 19:15

Wigmore Hall, 12-Jul-2022 / 19:30

  • Khachaturian: Cello Sonata
  • Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40
  • Isata Kanneh-Mason - Piano

Cadogan Hall, 01-Jun-2022 / 19:30

  • Bach, Giuliani, Sérgio Assad, Gnatali, Bloch, Piazzola, Paganini, Jano
  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Plinio Fernandes

Wigmore Hall, 21-Nov-2021 / 11:30

Recital with violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason and pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

  • Mendelssohn:
    • Rondo Capriccioso in E Op. 14
    • Song without Words in E Op. 19b No. 1
    • Auf Flügeln des Gesanges Op. 34 No. 2 (transcribed by Joseph Achron)
    • Song without Words in G 'Maidüfte' Op. 62 No. 1

Royal Albert Hall, 5-Sep-2021 / 19:30

  • Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor (40 mins)
  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Domingo Hindoyan - Conductor

Royal Albert Hall, 29-Aug-2021 (two performances)

  • Daniel Kidane: New work, BBC commission: world premiere
  • Saint‐Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals (39 mins)
  • Sheku, six other Kanneh-Masons siblings and friends.

Barbican Hall, 4-Jul-2021 / 20:00

Recital with pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason

Royal Festival Hall, 28-May-2021 / 19:30

  • Dvořák: Cello Concerto
  • Chineke! Orchestra

Barbican Hall, 25-Mar-2021 / 20:00

Live Streamed recital with pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason

Wigmore Hall, 11-Jan-2021 / 11:30

Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps

Kings Place, 11-Dec-2020 / 20:00

Kings Place, 11-Dec-2020 / 18:00

Barbican Hall, 22-Oct-2020 / 20:00

Sheku Kanneh-Mason played Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor in July 2020 at the Battersea Arts Centre. For more details see John Wilson

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 15-Mar-2020 / 19:30

Recital with cellist Guy Johnston

Wigmore Hall, 29-Dec-2019 / 11:30

Recital with friends

Wigmore Hall, 26-May-2019 / 11:30

Recital with pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason

Milton Court Concert Hall, 2nd and 4th of December 2018

Recital with pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason

Kings Place, 4-Oct-2017 / 19:30