Isata Kanneh-Mason

Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason offers eclectic and stimulating recital programs with repertoire encompassing Haydn and Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, Gershwin, and beyond.

Kanneh-Mason is in high demand worldwide. In July 2024, she performed at the First Night of the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Elim Chan, recieving stellar reviews. Kanneh-Mason then went on to appear as concerto soloist with the European Union Youth Orchestra and Iván Fischer in summer 2024, performing Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune at Carnegie Hall.

Highlights of the 2025–26 season include Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with Bar Avni and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and with Petr Popelka with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Kanneh-Mason makes further debuts with the Naples Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony, and returns to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

Kanneh-Mason also appears in solo recital and in chamber music at Wigmore Hall, with further recital appearances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Brucknerhaus in Linz,  Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, and  the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, among others.

Kanneh-Mason is a Decca Classics artist and has recorded four solo albums — Romance (2019), Summertime (2021), Childhood Tales (2023), and Mendelssohn (2024). Her most recent release presents music from two Mendelssohn siblings, including the glittering First Piano Concerto by Felix and the long-lost Easter Sonata by  Fanny. 

Kanneh-Mason has received many awards, including the coveted Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and an Opus Klassik award for Best Young Artist. She also enjoys composing and arranging, and, in 2023, released two albums of her favorite works for intermediate and advanced piano students through ABRSM Publishing.