Yet another visit by members of the Kanneh-Mason family to Seaton Music, Braimah is accompanied by the very talented Jâms Coleman.
Programme:
- A. Mozart – Violin Sonata in E minor, K. 304
- Boulanger – Nocturne
- Dvořák – Songs My Mother Taught Me
- Mendelssohn – On wings of song
- Alberga – No Man’s Land Lullaby
- Sibelius – 5 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.81
- Mazurka – 2’
- Rondino – 2’
- Elgar – Sospiri
- Elgar – Chanson de nuit
- Rachmaninov – How fair this spot
- Grieg – Violin Sonata No.3 in C minor, Op.45
Biographies
The second eldest of the Kanneh-Mason siblings, Braimah Kanneh-Mason is a dynamic and engaging violinist who has performed throughout the UK, Europe, USA and the Australia as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
In recent seasons he has played concerti with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bath Philharmonia. An avid chamber musician, Braimah is a member of the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio, Festival Academy Budapest Ensemble and Kaleidoscope Collective. He has performed at venues and festivals such as London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall, Melbourne Symphony Hall, Verbier Festival, Highgate International Chamber Music Festival, Leicester International Chamber Music Festival and collaborated with artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Tom Poster and Priya Mitchell. In 2024 he appeared in two concerts at the BBC Proms with his brother Sheku, Brazilian guitarist Plinio Fernandés and Fantasia Orchestra, conducted by Tom Featherstonhaugh. He also played Coleridge Taylor’s violin concerto in the USA with the Canton Symphony and Illinois Symphony Orchestras.
Through playing and presenting Braimah has recorded an episode in the BBC series, ‘In the Studio’, has co-presented a radio programme for Classic FM and recorded as a soloist for BBC Radio 3 and performed on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends show.
Braimah is a passionate advocate for equal opportunity and diversity in music education and is a Cultural Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda and a Junior Ambassador for Music in Secondary Schools Trust. He has been a mentor at Sistema England, Junior Music Works and a mentor for consecutive years for the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Orchestra (ABYSO).
Most recently, Braimah has studied with Barnabás Kelemen and Eszter Perenyi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where he was a scholarship student with Mateja Marinkovic and Jack Liebeck, winning the Harold Craxton Prize, the John McAslan Prize and the Dame Ruth Railton Chamber Music Prize.
Braimah plays a Matteo Goffriller violin on generous loan from a private sponsor through Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.
From Anglesey, North Wales, Jâms Coleman is a pianist who enjoys performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. He regularly performs at prestigious festivals and venues in the UK and internationally and recent highlights include recitals at the Aldeburgh Festival, BBC Proms, Champs Hill, Cello Biënnale (Amsterdam), Cheltenham Festival, Kings Place, Leeds Lieder Festival, LSO St Luke’s, Ortús Chamber Music Festival (Cork), Oxford International Song Festival, Petworth Festival, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, The Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and Wigmore Hall.
Jâms has a duo partnership with cellist Laura van der Heijden. Described as ‘intriguing and beguiling’ by The Guardian and as ‘gently alluring, enigmatic and romantic’ by Gramophone, their most recent album – ‘Path to the Moon’ – reached two million streams worldwide in the first week. They look forward to performing at the Wigmore Hall in November as part of the BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime recital series.
Other albums include a disc of Fanny Hensel lieder for First Hand Records (recorded in Mendelssohn Haus, Leipzig), a disc of Loewe lieder with baritone Nicholas Mogg for Champs Hill, and an album of works by Pamela Harrison with James Gilchrist, Alice Neary and Robert Plane for Resonus Classics. Future projects include an album of Bridge and Britten with Maria Włoszczowska, Hélène Clément and Steffan Morris for Champs Hill Records, and an album of works by Bacewicz with the Karski Quartet for the Evil Penguin label.
He regularly works with singers and instrumentalists at the top of the profession. Highlights include performances with BBC NOW, Britten Sinfonia, the Karski Quartet, and the Marmen Quartet; recitals with instrumentalists Hélène Clément, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Brett Dean, Vashti Hunter, Guy Johnston, Jonian Ilias Kadesha, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Felix Klieser, Jack Liebeck, Amy Norrington, Jennifer Pike, Timothy Ridout, Colin Scobie, and Jonathan Stone; recitals with singers Claire Booth, Katherine Broderick, James Newby, Nicky Spence, Sir John Tomlinson, Sir Bryn Terfel, and Elizabeth Watts.
Jâms read Music at Girton College, Cambridge, where he was also a Choral Scholar. He graduated with a Masters from the Royal Academy of Music and was awarded an ARAM in 2023.