Programme

J S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C sharp (from Well-Tempered Clavier Book One)
Mozart – Sonata in D K 576
Scriabin – Sonata No 2 in G sharp minor
Coleridge Taylor – Selected works
Liszt – Vallee D’Obermann
Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 in C sharp minor

Performers

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason Piano

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is eighteen years old and holds the Victoria Robey Scholarship to The Royal College of Music, studying piano with Vanessa Latarche. Jeneba was a Keyboard Category Finalist in BBC Young Musician 2018, winner of the Murs du Son Prize at the Lagny-Sur-Marne International Piano Competition in France 2014, and The Nottingham Young Musician 2013. She is also winner of the Iris Dyer Piano Prize at The Royal Academy of Music, Junior Academy, where she studied with Patsy Toh.

She has played numerous concerts in England, Wales, Paris and the Caribbean, as a recital and concerto soloist and as a chamber musician. She has performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1, Ravel’s Piano Concerto, Saint-Saens’ Concerto No 2, Mozart K414, and Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement with Chineke! Orchestra at The Royal Festival Hall. She will perform Rachmaninov’s Concerto No 2 in 2021. She has played two recitals at Cheltenham Festival and will undertake concert tours of Australia, New Zealand, USA, Antigua and Barbuda with the Kanneh-Masons in 2022.

Jeneba has appeared on several television and radio programmes, including BBC Radio 3, In Tune, the BAFTAs, the Royal Variety Performance, the documentary for BBC4 Young, Gifted and Classical, and the Imagine documentary for BBC1, This House is Full of Music. She has recorded for the album, Carnival, with Decca Classics.

Jeneba is grateful to Lady Robey, The Nottingham Soroptimist Trust and to The Nottingham Education Trust.