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MUSIC
KANNEH-MASON
THE VIRTUOSO CELLIST OF THE ROYAL WEDDING
heku Kanneh-Mason is Britain´s hottest young cello
player. Though only 19 years old, Sheku Kanneh-
Mason is world-renowned. His parents, Stuart
S Mason and Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh, are not musicians.
However, they have struggled, and succeeded, to provide their
seven prodigious children with the tools necessary to hone their
musical talents.
All, but the two who are still too young, study at the Royal
Academy of Music. The three eldest Kanneh-Mason siblings
also perform with Chineke! Orchestra: “…the first professional
orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority black and
minority ethnic musicians.” Sheku Kanneh-Mason made his
BBC Proms debut at Royal Albert Hall as a soloist with the
Chineke! Orchestra in 2017.
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