Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason – October 10, 2023 LiveEvents October 2, 2023 400 Bourgie Hall presents Isata Kanneh-Mason Winner of the Leonard Bernstein Award in 2021 and of an Opus Klassik award in 2020, Isata Kanneh-Mason stands among the most prominent pianists of her generation. She will perform a primarily Romantic program that showcases the copious breadth of her expressive palette. Isata Kanneh-Mason is in great demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She offers eclectic and interesting repertoire with 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 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. Program J. HAYDN Piano Sonata No. 60 in C major, Hob. XVI/50 Fanny MENDELSSOHN Easter Sonata R. SCHUMANN Kinderszenen, Op. 15 CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 7:30pm To purchase your tickets visit: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/bourgie-hall/