World’s great musicians plus great pieces: This KC concert is ‘a triple cheeseburger’

Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason will perform with the Royal Philharmonic at the Kauffman Center on Jan. 23.

Kansas City Star
Patrick Neas
January 19, 2024

Here’s a concert that will knock your socks o!. The Harriman-Jewell Series presents pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason and the Royal Philharmonic conducted by Vasily Petrenko on Jan. 23 at Helzberg Hall.

The orchestra will perform “Danse” by Debussy and Rachmanino!’s gorgeous Symphony No. 2. Kanneh-Mason will be the soloist for Prokofiev’s fearsomely difficult Piano Concerto No. 3.

Kanneh-Mason was born in Nottingham, England, into a family of enormously talented children . All seven siblings were featured on the TV show “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2015, and were immediate audience favorites. Kanneh-Mason studied at the Royal Academy of Music on the Sir Elton John Scholarship and now concertizes around the world as a soloist and with her brother, the acclaimed cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

“We’ve actually had Isata on the series before,” said Clark Morris, executive and artistic director of the Harriman-Jewell Series. “We were really pleased to feature her alongside her brother, and now she’s coming back as the featured soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Of course, they’re one of the world’s great orchestras, and we’ve had them before, too, but it will be a treat to hear them in Helzberg Hall.”

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