Isata Kanneh- Mason - Competing With Your Siblings For Success
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Isata Kanneh- Mason - Competing With Your Siblings For Success
Isata Kanneh-Mason is twenty years old and is an undergraduate at The Royal Academy of Music, studying piano with Hamish Milne, having been awarded the prestigious Sir Elton John Scholarship. She performed with Elton John in Los Angeles in 2013.
Isata was in the Piano Category Final of The BBC Young Musician 2014, winning The Walter Todds Bursary for the most promising musician before the Grand Final. She has won The Royal Academy Iris Dyer Piano Prize four times and won the Mrs Claude Beddington Prize for outstanding recital results in her second year as an undergraduate at The Royal Academy.
Isata held the Elsa and Leonard Cross Scholarship at The Royal Academy of Music, Junior Department, studying piano with Patsy Toh. She won two ABRSM Gold Awards at age 10 and 11 for the highest marks in the UK for grades 7 and 8 Piano.
She has performed around the UK and abroad, with concerto appearances, in chamber ensembles and in solo recitals, including at the Wigmore Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, St Martin-in-the -Fields, The Duke’s Hall (Royal Academy), The Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham. She has performed several concerti, including Mozart K466, Haydn Hob XVIII, the Grieg Piano Concerto, the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 2. In 2014, Isata perform ed Mozart’s Triple Concerto with two of her sisters. She has given solo recitals at The Hebden Bridge Music Festival, the Belper Music Festival, the Lincoln Music Festival,and Grantham Music Club Recital Series. She performed in the Piano Series at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall, The Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, USA, Yellow Lounge, Amsterdam and has future engagements in The Barbican Sound Unbound Festival, The Elgar Room at The Royal Albert Hall, Cheltenham Music Festival, Leicester International Chamber Music Festival, the Caribbean, The Cayman Islands and Canada. Isata plays the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Bardi Symphony Orchestra in Leicester in October 2017. She also plays viola, and is a member of Chineke! Orchestra, performing with them at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank and The Royal Festival Hall.
Isata has performed several times on BBC television and radio, including Radio 3 In Tune, The Proms Extra, Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, Al Jazeera TV, BBC World Service, Channel 4, The One Show, the BBC4 documentary: Young, Gifted and Classical, ITV Born To Shine, and BBC Young Musician.
Isata is very grateful to the Nottingham Soroptimist Trust, the Nottingham Education Trust, to Mr and Mrs John Brydon, to Frank White of Ladystone Violins and to Sir Elton John.
What a very wise (and beautiful) young lady!!!
Thank you Isata! you and your whole family are so inspiring...😍💝
An Angel in the making! What a blessing to hear this angel sister! WOW! 2020-2100
If of all the millions of UA-cam videos there are, there was just ONE I would wish my beloved children to view and listen to, for the sake of their children, THIS would be that one. This star outshines the rest.
Respect to you Isata for the lovely beautiful wise talented kind person you are!! Wish you and your beautiful siblings every success you hope to achieve. Hats off to your mum and dad for their excellent upbringing! Very very impressive indeed
Thank you Isata! You are indeed a great success! By igniting that spark of classical music to your siblings from the age of 9. Your whole families success is yours! I hope you know that you are inspiring all little girls and boys all over the world....and old girls like me too!
I wish you continued success ! Love from New York, by way of BIRMINGHAM in the Midlands, by way of JAMAICA!!!
You are a lovely soul.
Beautiful presence. What a remarkable family. Deep respect.
Isata! Your TED talk! Yes ma'am !!
You need have no misgivings about speaking in public - you are eloquent and very engaging, which makes you easy to listen to. And what a marvellous topic - your wonderful family of musicians. Thank you all for the exquisite pleasure of hearing you perform.
So sweet.
Go on, girl; we need classical!
Beautiful and inspiring speech Isata. We are so so proud of you in Sierra Leone. Congrats and best wishes. Your grand dad Uncle Bernard also loved music I was told and music is loved in the Kanneh family. Thanks for being able to show the world how powerful music is and that West Africa is rich in Talents. Your Aunty Mariama Konneh Zombo
What a lovely, inspirational young woman you are Isata. You speak so eloquently with great conviction. I wish you every success in the future. Ps., I am currently three quarters through your mum's new book .. House of Music... a fascinating story of a wonderful families determination to succeed. Love and happiness to the Kanneh - Masons.
Most definitely agree. Isata gave a great presentation.
You are a beautiful person and so talented, and I think you are a wonderful role model for many many young people of all races. You must have wonderful parents, and they must be so proud of you all. I wish you the very best that life has to offer - love, happiness, and many happy successes.
Thank you Isata ❤
Isata, thank you for these inspirational words - I wish I'd had your wisdom when I was your age. I've only recently realised that practising is a joy!
Beautifully Done!
Just like you wanted to go to the very best place to study music, you chose the very best music to pursue. You will soon be at the top of the musical world!
It's wonderful what you all do. One small comment, acknowledge what your first teacher did for you; they gave you your initial love for music so most likely were indeed " proper lessons" before RAM and you would have gone nowhere without that. I speak as a 4th generation music teachers. Teachers of beginners are under-rated but it requires just as much expertise as advanced pupils and massively more work! Also I personally think you are a winner, that competition is just that, a glimpse of what you create. You have enspired many of my black pupils who share your/my passion for Art music and clearly believe in themselves more (and other people believe more) from your families example.
Brilliant personified
You and your siblings are amazing. I especially loved your Rachmaninoff concerto 1. Thank you x
Hi Isata, you are a success in the music world, because you are only 17 years old, and you have placed in the finals already of an international competition. That is quite remarkable. If you are entering an international competition like the BBC expect to find competitors older than yourself. It is these older ones - usually in their 20's, mid or upper 20's - that win these competitions. Some of them come back for a second time, before they actually win.
You need, over the course of a few years , to compete in many more competitions - some in the US. You may come first in some, and in others just make the finals. Be aware that there are very good artists with careers already established, that do not even get beyond the semi-finals. Competitions are many times unfair and unpredictable. Visibility and perseverance many times is the most important thing.
YOU NEED TO BE A LITTLE OLDER, AND ENTER MANY MORE COMPETITIONS BEFORE YOU CAN GET A REALISTIC APPRAISAL OF YOURSELF. HOWEVER BE ENCOURAGED. I BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A CONCERT PIANIST WITHIN TIME. ALSO JUST PUT GOD IN THE FOREFRONT. FROM EXPERIENCE, I KNOW IT WORKS.
wow this is so inspiring! You speak with such eloquence, such a role model
Great!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Excellent
It really was a great talk!
Oops I meant concerto 2 😎 x
Why didn't she try again after she fail? Welldone for your successes either way.