Saturday 9 November 2024
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
LPF — Pop-Up Piano 2024
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason: piano
Scarlatti: Sonata in A Major K.24
Scarlatti; Sonata in F Minor K.466
Chopin; Sonata No.2 in B♭ minor, Op.35
Chopin: Nocturnes — Nos.7 & 8, Op.27 Nos.1 & 2
Scriabin: Sonata No.2 in G♯ minor, Op.19
Prokofiev: Sonata No.7 in B♭ major, Op.83
We are thrilled that one of the rising stars of the piano world has agreed to put Ludlow on her current list of UK and worldwide dates. Jeneba Kanneh-Mason played at the proms in 2023 but, this winter, will light up St Laurence’s with a recital featuring exquisite and powerful work by Chopin, Scriabin, Scarlatti and Prokofiev.
Not the usual repertoire and another extraordinary pianist who has agreed to come to our town. You won't want to miss her!
Tickets from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE
Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is already captivating audiences with her ‘maturity in performance and interpretation’. She recently made her BBC Proms debut performing the Florence Price Concerto and was heralded by the press as 'demonstrating musical insight, technical acuity, and an engaging performing persona’ (Music OMH). The piece was recorded with Chineke! and Leslie Suganandarajah and released on Decca Classics in Summer 2023. The Guardian hailed her performance, stating that ‘Price could have no more persuasive an advocate’.
She also recorded Mozart's Piano Concerto No.6 with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Howard Griffiths, which was released on Alpha and she has recorded for the album, Carnival, with Decca Classics.
Other recent and forthcoming highlights include - an extensive UK tour with the Hungarian Radio Symphony and Riccardo Frizza, debuts with the Detroit Symphony, Philharmonia,and the BBC Philharmonic and a European tour with Chineke!. Jeneba was a Keyboard Category Finalist in BBC Young Musician 2018, was winner of the Murs du Son Prize at the Lagny-Sur-Marne International Piano Competition, and the Iris Dyer Piano Prize at The Royal Academy of Music, Junior Academy.
Jeneba was named one of Classic FM's ‘Rising Stars’ in 2021 and has also been featured on several television and radio programmes, including: Radio 3's In Tune, The BAFTAs, The Royal Variety Performance, Young, Gifted and Classical, and the Imagine documentary This House is Full of Music.
Jeneba holds the Victoria Robey Scholarship to The Royal College of Music. She is grateful to Lady Robey, The Nottingham Soroptimist Trust and to The Nottingham Education Trust.