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SAINT-SAËNS CELLO CONCERTO
of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. The album
entered the Official U.K. Album charts
at number 18 and has spent many weeks
at number 1 in the classical chart. In
June 2018, Kanneh-Mason received the
Male Artist of the Year and the Critics’
Choice Classic BRIT awards and in July
2018 became the first recipient of the
BRIT Certified Breakthrough Award.
Kanneh-Mason has already
performed with many of the U.K.’s
most important orchestras and the
2019–20 season includes debuts with
the Seattle Symphony, Frankfurt Radio
Symphony, Orchestre philharmonique
de Radio France, Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra and Netherlands Chamber
Orchestra, as well as a performance at
the Vienna Musikverein with the Japan
Philharmonic Orchestra.
In recital, Kanneh-Mason made his
London debut at King’s Place in October
2017 and performed at the Barbican
Centre’s Milton Court, Wigmore Hall,
Zürich Tonhalle, Lucerne Festival and
went on a major tour of the U.S.
In 2018, Kanneh-Mason returned to
the BBC Proms, following his Proms
debut in 2017. As the first London
Music Masters Junior Ambassador, he
believes firmly that music should be
accessible to all and is a strong advocate
of the importance of music education
in schools. In 2018 –19, he served as
Young Artist in Residence at the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic.
In 2017 Kanneh-Mason received the
South Bank Sky Arts Breakthrough
Award and in February 2018, he
performed Evening of Roses at the
BAFTAS Awards show at the Royal
Albert Hall with four of his six siblings,
the first time any artist has been invited
to perform during the ceremony two
years running.
Kanneh-Mason is a full-time ABRSM
Scholarship student at the Royal
Academy of Music, studying with
Hannah Roberts. He plays an Antonius
and Hieronymus Amati cello c.1610,
kindly on loan from a private collection.
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, January 30, 2020, 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, January 31, 2020, 8 pm
Saturday, February 1, 2020, 8 pm
Marin Alsop, conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Florence Price The Oak
Camille Saint-Saëns

Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, op. 33
Allegro non troppo
Allegretto con moto
Tempo primo
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
INTERMISSION
Antonín Dvořák

Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, op. 70
Allegro maestoso
Poco adagio
Scherzo: Vivace
Finale: Allegro
The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end
at approximately 10 pm.
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About the Artists
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7.
Sheku
Kanneh-Mason
Sheku Kanneh-Mason,
one of the brightest
young stars on the
classical music scene,
became a household name worldwide
in May 2018 after performing at the
Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of
Sussex at Windsor Castle.
The winner of the 2016 BBC Young
Musician competition, Kanneh-Mason
is already in great demand from major
orchestras and concert halls worldwide,
combining an increasingly busy concert
schedule with his studies as a second-year
student at the Royal Academy of Music.
In January 2018, his debut recording
for Decca Classics, Inspiration, was
released, featuring the Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1 with the City
Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his BSO debut.

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