Steinway Special: The Kanneh-Masons

You can’t have missed the buzz around The Kanneh-Masons; one of Britain’s most musical families.

With a strong connection to Wales, describing themselves as a quarter Welsh, this extraordinary ensemble give their first chamber appearance in the Welsh capital in a special Steinway series finale. Hear Sheku, Isata, Braimah and Jeneba, who have developed into artists of extraordinary charisma and skill, play three chamber music masterpieces.

Winner of the BBC Young Musician competition in 2016, Sheku’s talent captured the world’s attention when he performed at the at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in 2018. He tours the world’s leading concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and Konzerthaus Berlin. He performs regularly with his sister, Isata, who has also had chart topping tracks in the classical charts and was an ECHO Rising Star in the 2021-22 season, and artist-in-residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2022-23 season. She made her BBC Proms debut in 2023 with BBC National Orchestra of Wales. 

Jeneba made her BBC Proms debut with Chineke! Orchestra in 2021 in a concert celebrating rarely heard composers of African heritage and was named one of Classic FM’s ‘Rising Stars’. Braimah is a member of the Festival Academy Budapest Ensemble and Kaleidoscope Collective (as well as a former member of the pop band, Clean Bandit) and is a passionate advocate for equal opportunity and diversity in music education.