A Leonard Bernstein and Opus Klassik Award winner for best young artist, Isata Kanneh-Mason returns to SF Performances as she continues to move and inspire audiences worldwide. "She plays with unreserved power when necessary, thundering forth full-bodied chords that combine sonorous weight and perfectly rounded edges" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is in great demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She offers eclectic and interesting repertoire, with her recital programs encompassing music from Haydn and Mozart, via Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, to Gershwin and beyond. 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 Dohnanyi.
The program will include:
HAYDN: Piano Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI/50
FANNY MENDELSSOHN: Easter Sonata
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen, Op. 15
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58
$70/$60/$50.
Presented by San Francisco Performances
A Leonard Bernstein and Opus Klassik Award winner for best young artist, Isata Kanneh-Mason returns to SF Performances as she continues to move and inspire audiences worldwide. "She plays with unreserved power when necessary, thundering forth full-bodied chords that combine sonorous weight and perfectly rounded edges" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is in great demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She offers eclectic and interesting repertoire, with her recital programs encompassing music from Haydn and Mozart, via Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, to Gershwin and beyond. 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 Dohnanyi.
The program will include:
HAYDN: Piano Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI/50
FANNY MENDELSSOHN: Easter Sonata
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen, Op. 15
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58
$70/$60/$50.
Presented by San Francisco Performances
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