isata kanneh-mason
21 february 2024 / 8.30pm / band on the wall, manchester
100% funded (sold out)
Chart-topping concert pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plays a rare solo show in Manchester's legendary Band on the Wall
7.30pm: doors open
8pm: last entry
8.30pm: isata kanneh-mason set
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Please note that due to the venue's license, this noisenight is strictly 10+ (under 16s need to be accompanied by a responsible adult).
the venue:
Scala is an infamous central london venue. Located a few blocks from King's Cross, the former cinema turned nightclub hosts nights as varied as they come.
Since 1999 they've welcomed Tiesto, Bastille, Ed Sheeran, Gorillaz, Coldplay, The Killers, Snarky Puppy, Kaiser Chiefs, Run DMC, Rita Ora, Rihanna, Lana Del Ray, Foo Fighters, Moby, and many, many more.
the music:
Chart-topping concert pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plays a rare solo show after a season which has seen her make debuts at the greatest concert halls in the UK, US, Japan, China, and beyond.
Isata's programme will combine music from her Official Chart Top 40 album Summertime, including arrangements of Gershwin and Coleridge-Taylor, with compositions by Haydn, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Chopin.
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the programme:
Joseph Haydn - Piano Sonata No. 60 in C major (First movement: Allegro)
Earl Wild - Grand Fantasy on Porgy and Bess - Summertime (after G. Gershwin)
George Gershwin - The Man I Love (arr. Grainger)
George Gershwin - Prelude No. 1: Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (from Three Preludes)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Robert Schumann - Selection from Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Felix Mendelssohn - Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Frédéric Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 (Third movement: Largo, Fourth movement: Presto non tanto)
isata kanneh-mason:
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is in great demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She offers eclectic and interesting repertoire with recital programmes encompassing music from Haydn and Mozart via Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, Chopin and Brahms to Gershwin and beyond.
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In concerto, she is equally at home in Felix Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann (whose piano concerto featured on Isata’s chart-topping debut recording) as in Prokofiev and Dohnányi.
Highlights of the 23/24 season include performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, London Mozart Players, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on tour in the USA and Germany, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Stockholm Philharmonic, and Academy of St Martin in the Fields. With her cellist brother, Sheku, she appears in recital in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in addition to an extensive European recital tour. Isata also gives a series of solo recitals on tour in the USA and Canada as well as at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Lucerne Festival, and across Germany.
In 2022/23 Isata made successful debuts at the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore halls in London, the Philharmonie Berlin, National Concert Hall Dublin, Perth Concert Hall and Prinzregententheater Munich. As concerto soloist, she appeared with orchestras such as the New World Symphony Miami, City of Birmingham Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, Geneva Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic and was the Artist in Residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Rewards: standing tickets to noisenight73 at 8.30pm on Wednesday 21 February 2024 at Band on the Wall, Manchester. First-come, first-served for the best views.
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