Young Musician: Mariatu Kanneh-Mason

Mariatu Kanneh-Mason is sixteen years old and studies cello and piano at the Junior Royal Academy of Music.

At age 10, she gained Grade 8 distinction on the cello and holds a piano diploma distinction (ARSM).

She has performed with the Kanneh-Masons in a series of concerts around the UK, Europe, Australia, USA, Canada and in Antigua and Barbuda.

With the Kanneh-Masons, Mariatu performed at The Royal Albert Hall for the 2021 BBC Proms, and with her siblings for The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in March 2017.

Mariatu presents an evocative programme blending Spanish folk intimacy with sweeping Romantic lyricism.Passionate.

Lyrical.

Contrasting.