Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s mission is to make music accessible to all, whether that's performing for children in a school hall, at an underground club, or in the world’s leading concert venues. Highlights of the 25/26 season include the New York Philharmonic as Artist in Residence, the London Philharmonic on tour, the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestra of Santa Cecilia Rome, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Auckland Philharmonia, and the Baltimore, Vienna, and Sydney symphony orchestras.

Sheku will perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with his pianist sister, Isata, and violinist Tai Murray and the Chineke! Orchestra on tour in Europe, and with Isata and their brother, Braimah, as violinist on a North American tour in Detroit, Ottawa, Naples (Florida), and Seattle. Sheku also gives the world première of Edmund Finnis’s Cello Concerto, which was written for him, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Roberto Gonzalez Monjas, with further performances of the work with the Dresden Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, and London Symphony orchestras.

Sheku continues his collaboration with Isata for a European duo recital tour in February, taking in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Geneva, Turin, Amsterdam, and London’s Wigmore Hall, where later in the 25/26 season Sheku and Isata return to play chamber music with two more of their siblings, Braimah and Jeneba. Sheku also returns to Antigua, where he has family connections, as an ambassador for the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra.

A Decca Classics recording artist, Sheku released Shostakovich & Britten in May 2025, featuring Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2, performed with John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London, alongside the cello sonatas of Shostakovich and Britten, which he recorded with Isata Kanneh-Mason. September 2025 sees the release of the second Kanneh-Mason family album, River of Music, also on Decca Classics. Sheku’s 2022 album, Song, showcased his innately lyrical playing in a wide range of arrangements and collaborations, and his 2020 album Elgar reached No. 8 in the overall Official UK Album Chart, making him the first ever cellist to reach the UK Top 10. Sheet music collections of his performance repertoire along with his own arrangements and compositions are published by Faber.

Sheku is a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Hannah Roberts and in May 2022 was appointed as the Academy’s first Menuhin Visiting Professor of Performance Mentoring. In 2024 he accepted the role as patron of UK Music Masters and remains an ambassador for both Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Future Talent. Sheku was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year’s Honours List. After winning the BBC Young Musician competition in 2016, Sheku’s performance at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Windsor Castle in 2018 was watched by two billion people worldwide. He plays a Matteo Goffriller cello from 1700 which is on indefinite loan to him.

British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has an acclaimed international career as a soloist and chamber musician, which is reflected in his extensive discography on Decca Classics.

During the 2025/2026 season Benjamin’s concerto performances will include the Philharmonia/Rouvali, Teatro alla Scala/Honeck, Bergen Philharmonic and his debut with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He will also perform at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Sinfonia of London, and tour to Australia and New Zealand. Recital highlights this season include Carnegie Hall in New York, Chicago, Amsterdam, Singapore, Melbourne and London. He will make his debut at the Boulez Saal with Kian Soltani and at the Vienna Muzikverein and Heidelberger Frühling in quartet with Hyeyoon Park, Timothy Ridout and Kian Soltani.

Previous concerto engagements have included Cleveland, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, NHK Symphony, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre National de France and  Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In the UK, Benjamin has performed with all the major London orchestras and very regularly at the BBC Proms, including at the First and Last Nights. As well as a solo recital in the Royal Albert Hall, his concerto performances at the Proms have included works by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Busoni, Shostakovich and Britten. Benjamin’s conductor collaborations include Marin Alsop, Elim Chan, Edward Gardner, Paavo Jarvi, Nathalie Stutzmann, Krzysztof Urbanski and Kazuki Yamada.

Benjamin’s solo recitals have included Tokyo, Berlin, Warsaw, Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall  and at Klavierfest Ruhr and La Roque d’Anthéron. Last season he was a featured artist at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and in 2024 he premiered Hommage à Liszt by Brett Dean.

In 2011 Benjamin signed to Decca Classics, the youngest British musician ever to do so, and also their first British pianist in almost 60 years. His impressive discography encompasses solo, chamber works as well as concertos; and has attracted numerous accolades; Chocs de l’année, Prix de Caecilia, Diapason d’or de l’année and Gramophone awards. His most recent release is of solo repertoire by Chopin.

Benjamin is an Ambassador of Music Masters, a charity dedicated to making music education accessible to all children regardless of their background; championing diversity and inclusion.