cello prodigy

Prodigious young British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason stars with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra to perform the darkly wonderful Cello Concerto No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Conducted by Esa Pekka-Salonen, the symphony also present the Fairytale Poem by Sofia Gubaidulina, the first time the piece has been performed in San Francisco.

Aged just 25, British Kanneh-Mason has already been appointed the prodigious title of Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to music in the UK. An unbelievable talent, he signed a major record deal with Decca Records aged just 17 and has had a UK top-10 album with his renditions of Elgar, on the record of the same name.