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Where did she study?
Isata studied at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and latterly at the Royal
Academy of Music.
What albums has Isata Kanneh-Mason recorded?
In 2019, Isata released her debut recording on Decca: a collection of piano works
by Clara Schumann.
Then came Summertime, featuring piano works by four American composers:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Amy Beach, Samuel Barber and George Gershwin.
Isata and Sheku collaborated on the album Muse, released in November 2021. It
features Samuel Barber's Sonata for Cello and Piano, transcriptions of songs by
Barber and Rachmaninov, and Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata.
Her latest release for Decca is devoted to music on the theme of childhood, and
features works by Dohnányi, Mozart, Schumann and Debussy.
What is Isata performing at the 2023 BBC Proms?
For Prom 22 on Tuesday 1 August, Isata will perform Prokofiev's Piano Concerto
No. 3, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft. The
Prom will also feature Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.
Has she performed at the Proms before?
