Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is already captivating audiences
with her “maturity in performance and interpretation, the
former an uncanny phenomenon” (Fraser). The third of the
Kanneh-Mason clan to establish herself as a soloist, Jeneba
recently made her BBC Proms debut with the Chineke!
Orchestra, performing the Florence Price Concerto and was
heralded by the press as “demonstrating musical insight,
technical acuity, and an engaging performing persona” (Music
OMH).
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 was also winner of
the Iris Dyer Piano Prize at The Royal Academy of Music,
Junior Academy, where she studied with Patsy Toh.
Recent and forthcoming highlights include debuts with the
Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra,
BBC Philharmonic, and the Sinfonia Viva for the New Year
Gala. She also undertakes an extensive tour with Chineke!
across Europe in November 2022 for the Price Concerto, and
recorded with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. An avid
recital performer, Jeneba will also be making solo debuts at the
Zurich Tonhalle, London Wigmore Hall, Academy of Saint
Martin in the Fields, amongst others, as well as the Lenzburgiade, Rheingau, Cheltenham, Bradfield and Lamberhurst festivals. In 2022, Jeneba also embarked on tours of Australia, USA, Antigua and Barbuda with the Kanneh-
Masons.
Jeneba was named one of Classic FM’s ‘Rising Stars’ and
appeared on Julian Lloyd Webber’s radio series in 2021. She has
also been featured on several television and radio programmes,
including 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 holds the Victoria Robey Scholarship to The Royal
College of Music, studying piano with Vanessa Latarche. She is
grateful to Lady Robey, The Nottingham Soroptimist Trust and
to The Nottingham Education Trust.
