Ludlow Arts: Classical

Ludlow Piano Festival

Thursday 21 May 2026

7:30pm

St Laurence, Ludlow

Isata Kanneh-Mason: piano

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C♯ minor Op.27, No.2 Moonlight
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M55
Dobrinka Tabakova: Nocturne
Dobrinka Tabakova: Halo
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C major, Op.53, Waldstein

Isata Kanneh-Mason offers eclectic and stimulating recital programmes with repertoire encompassing Haydn and Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, Chopin and Brahms to Gershwin and beyond. In concerto, she is equally at home in Felix Mendelssohn and Beethoven as in Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff.

Isata is in high demand from concert halls and orchestras worldwide. In July 2024, she was invited to perform at the First Night of the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony and conductor Elim Chan, a performance which resulted in stellar reviews in the mainstream press. Isata went on to appear as concerto soloist with the European Union Youth Orchestra and Iván Fischer in summer 2024 performing Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season include Rachmaninoff’s third piano concerto with Bar Avni and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and with Petr Popelka with the Prague Radio Symphony at the Rudolfinum. Isata makes further debuts with the Naples Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony, and returns to the City of Birmingham Symphony, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa.

Tickets £25 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE