Dr Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
@KadiatuKM
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Award-winning author, speaker, passionate advocate for music education, mother of seven acclaimed classical musicians.
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Thank you to our wonderful and necessary independent bookshops. Honoured that House of Music is winner of the non-fiction Indie Book Award 2022
@OneworldNews
@booksaremybag
@TheBookcase
@ScalaRadio
#IndieBookshopWeek
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Replying to the barrage of racism against my son
@ShekuKM
this week. So many feel it’s ok to call for deportation, flogging, sending him ‘back to Africa’ and to use ‘Ni**er’ against someone trying to engage in a conversation about music and inclusion. Horror, rage, heartbreak.
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November is the month, on a day of freezing fog, I first arrived in the UK with my family in 1970. My heart goes out to migrants who arrive here and try to survive hostility
#suellabraverman
#HouseofMusic
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Thank you so much to everyone who responded so kindly to us. We feel incredibly encouraged. What was deeply hurtful and dispiriting has been turned into joy and celebration. By all of you ❤️
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I am delighted and honoured to take up the role of president
@ChesterPhilOrch
New Year, New President!
We are delighted to announce our new President is Dr Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason (
@KadiatuKM
). She is a great supporter of diversity and inclusion in classical music and music education. We share her passion for encouraging musicians in future generations!
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So proud that
@ShekuKM
is the new patron
@UKMusicMasters
We are so proud to announce that
@ShekuKM
is our new Patron and we couldn’t be happier! One of the most in-demand cellists in the world, Sheku is also an amazing role model.
Follow us and find out more about his work in schools and with our teachers.
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Language matters. We hear ‘Invasion, numbers, crime’. We hear about ‘maximum security’, a Chinook and a Home Secretary ‘on the ground’. We are real people. And we are not a threat.
#suellabraverman
#HouseofMusic
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Thrilled to see my daughter, Aminata as a Next-Gen Power Player
@GraziaUK
magazine. With huge thanks
@BernardineEvari
🙏🏾
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Stripping music from schools is cancelling our next generation of musicians and audiences, destroying our music industry and cementing our divided education system. Thank you
@sowetokinch
for the interview
@BBCRadio4
@BBCSounds
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Mariatu (14) plays her first concerto (Saint-Saens) 🎉with family
@ShekuKM
and cello teacher Ben Davies
@RoyalAcadMusic
to watch! Memories of every sibling performing their very first concerto with Djanogly Community Orchestra in Nottingham- tradition complete 🎻🎶
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Now that was a great way to spend a 25th birthday! Loved watching
@ShekuKM
playing Weinberg cello concerto last night and getting his surprise serenade
@liverpoolphil
🎉
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Celebrating musical family on Christmas Eve, BBC2, 5.40pm 🎉
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An honour to read the citation for Judith Weir last night for her presentation by King Charles III - Honorary Membership
@RoyalPhilSoc
@wigmore_hall
Congratulations, Judith
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We loved this precious family time -and finding out the von Trapps studied violin, piano and cello! The Hills Are Alive
@BBCTwo
this afternoon at 5.40pm 🎹🎻 Merry Christmas, All 🎉
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Braimah teaching timing and tuning to the string section of Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra 😊
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Happy Birthday to my lovely fourth child- the middle one!- Konya 🎉
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Delighted and overwhelmed to be made an Honorary Fellow (Hon FRAM)
@RoyalAcadMusic
🍾🎉🎹🎻
We're delighted to announce our 2022 honorands, including
@Lin_Manuel
, Semyon Bychkov, Dame Patricia Routledge and Cynthia Erivo.
Read the full announcement here >
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Happy Birthday to my wonderful Mum today 🎂 Young love with my Dad in Birmingham, on her wedding day in Freetown, and with me in Magburaka, Sierra Leone ❤️
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Two of my pianist daughters, Konya and Jeneba present the music special to them from childhood onwards. Tonight
@ClassicFM
with the fifth programme of the Kanneh-Mason Family Takeover 🎹
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It’s been seven years 🎉 -since June 2016- that
@KathrynEnticott
@enticottmusic
has represented
@ShekuKM
- and added more of his siblings along the way! Time to say thank you 🙏🏾 to the best manager in the world 💐
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Thrilled to receive my HonFRAM today
@RoyalAcadMusic
in the company of amazing honorands and all the family- Konya (BMus) and
@ShekuKM
(Advanced Diploma and Queens Commendation for Excellence) graduating as well! 🎓🎉
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Only 8 pieces of music? What will he choose? Can’t wait to hear
@ShekuKM
on Desert Island Discs
@BBCRadio4
this Sunday 11.15am🏝️
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Getting ready to walk to
@BBCRadio3
from Junior Academy
@RoyalAcadMusic
to join fellow studio guests, Hilary Hahn (playing live!) Leah Broad and Anna Clyne to talk all things music (diversity, education, women composers..) Can’t wait! Music Matters begins 11.45am
@BBCSounds
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‘Now, more than ever, we must reverse the tide on musical education and recognise the transformational impact it can have for our children, schools, communities and society at large.’
@OfficialALW
@misst_music
I’ve written to
@10DowningSt
and
@Keir_Starmer
, supported by
@coldplay
,
@edsheeran
and industry leaders, calling for public funding for
@misst_music
. More students in disadvantaged schools need access to quality music education; the benefits are proven and life-changing. ALW
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On the train back from Glasgow with Stuart having received the
@aborchestras
Award for the Kanneh-Mason family last night with presenter
@KlassMyleene
@ClassicFM
@SnapperJohn
Celebrating live ensemble music 🎻🏴🎺🥁
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Honoured to be part of this important series
@BBCRadio3
on the state of music in the UK
@RichmoMusic
A moment of reckoning for our young people, our future, and what we mean by education. Listen here
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Full of sadness at the lack of voices supporting migrants seeking asylum. We fixate on ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ as moral laws and simultaneously seek to undermine human rights. We are afraid to speak out against hatred and fear
#suellabraverman
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My favourite family night out!
@IsataKm
@bbcproms
@RoyalAlbertHall
tonight at 7pm playing Prokofiev 3rd Piano concerto
@BBCNOW
🎹🎉
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I can’t believe it!
@ShekuKM
23 today! Here is the collage made for him by his siblings when he left home for
@RoyalAcadMusic
at 18 years old..
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Happy 14th Birthday to the youngest!! Mariatu ❤️🎂
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Time for Prom already? GCSEs over for 16 year old Aminata. Looking forward to 6th Form at Trinity Catholic School. Can’t believe it!
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Beethoven Triple last night for
@ShekuKM
@RSNO
@NickyBenedetti
@grosvenorpiano
Opening the concert together with RSNO youth chorus- amazing for Sheku to discover the composer was his
@ABRSM
Grade 8 cello examiner
@RussHepplewhite
-when Sheku was 9 years old 😅
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Thursday’s Beethoven Triple Concerto
@southbankcentre
@philharmonia
was a reminder of enduring friendships in music
@NickyBenedetti
@grosvenorpiano
@ShekuKM
🎻🎹🎻
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Music is the best way to revisit our family stories. Wonderful to be talking with
@ShekuKM
@ClassicFM
for Mothers Day tonight at 9pm
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When concerts clash, what can parents do? Stuart and I split up across London last night, trying to be in two places at once!
@ShekuKM
and
@IsataKm
@RoyalAcadMusic
-and Jeneba
@stmartins_music
@smitt_london
Can we swap and watch them both again? 😁
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Fabulous time in New York with
@Isatakm
for her brilliant debut solo recital
@carnegiehall
last night ❤️
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My job was fixing the dress 😊 before Jeneba’s concerto
@southbankcentre
@Chineke4Change
last night with lots of brotherly love backstage afterwards!
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Happy International Day of the Girl! This week, I am delighted to present a BBC Radio 4 appeal for WONDER Foundation, a charity focused on giving women and girls across the world quality education. Listen to
@BBCRadio4
this Sunday to hear the appeal
@WONDERfdn
,
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What is it like to be a black classical musician? Voices from a Rebel City
@JaredLeftlion
is a love song to a city and to music 🎹🎻
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Work begins for Konya and Braimah with the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra in Antigua
@ABHCUK
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Braimah and Konya with some of their youngest violin students in Antigua. Bringing music education to children is a gift for life
#HouseofMusic
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Brilliant night last night, celebrating the importance of music in state schools
@misst_music
5 Kanneh-Masons on stage at London’s Theatre Royal with
@JessGillamSax
Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Jason Donovan and the incredible young musicians from secondary schools around the UK
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Back in Antigua with the family for Playing to Inspire 2023
@ABHCUK
First stop, Grandma’s house, then coaching the Antigua Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra (ABYSO). Such extraordinary joy and determination that playing music brings. Moved to tears 🇦🇬
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My charity appeal for
@WONDERfdn
is live today on BBC Radio 4! I am a huge supporter of WONDER, giving women and girls across the world quality education, leading to independence and financial security. Listen at 7.54am or 9:25 pm or visit the BBC website:
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Found myself weeping through the premiere
@fanny_tom_film
@FulhamRoadPH
with four of my daughters on Friday night. Heart-rending story of Fanny Mendelssohn’s life and music, directed
@sheilahayman
with
@IsataKm
🎹
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Loved having
@IsataKm
back in her home concert hall
@RoyalNottingham
last night
@liverpoolphil
and meeting the audience- including a contingency from her old school, Trinity- and former headteacher
@MrJDexter
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I needed to hear this tonight
@BBCRadio3
. -full of human emotion, love and passion. If you missed
@IsataKm
playing Clara Schumann’s piano concerto
@the_halle
@BridgewaterHall
tonight, find
@BBCSounds
7.30pm 🎹
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Utterly thrilled! Thank you
@ISM_music
The ISM is delighted to announce that Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason (
@KadiatuKM
) is the latest recipient of the Distinguished Musician Award (DMA) 🎉
Kadiatu is an author, lecturer, champion for music and mother of seven children, all of whom are acclaimed classical musicians.
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Apart from the paramount role of state music education, I also think there is a prevailing perception problem.’ As a proud Champion of
@musicmarkuk
here are some of my thoughts on music, diversity and access
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Wonderful piano cake made by the Mum of Khadijah Buchanan-Woode for Jeneba
@thekannehmasons
solo piano recital
@wigmore_hall
this morning. Sorry you have chicken pox, Khadijah 🎹
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The finale of our 4 Spirit of Christmas concerts last night
@liverpoolphil
in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. What a glorious run it has been and an honour to be the presenter! With conductor, Ian Tracey and fabulous guest soloist
@kathrynrudge
Happy Christmas All 🎄
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@IsataKanneh
@ShekuKM
Thank you, sis ❤️ Exactly so. Awful. I think the point made by
@ShekuKM
is ever stronger.
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Proud of
@ShekuKM
speaking out against Cardiff City Council’s proposed devastation of the National Concert Hall of Wales
@stdavidshall
as “potentially taking away an entire art form’
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A privilege to have an audience with the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He pledged his commitment to the Youth Orchestra and to music education and instrument-learning. Music is being nurtured for children and young people here in the Caribbean- why not the UK?
@ABHCUK
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Lovely to hear Konya - and Braimah playing live 🎻on the Today programme
@BBCRadio4
this morning. Looking forward to Christmas Eve
@BBCTwo
🎶 Catch up
@BBCSounds
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Music every hour in Antigua! From tutoring and working with the brilliant Youth Symphony, concert rehearsals and Kanneh-Mason performances around the island, we still find time for family reunions- and practising at Grandma’s house!
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Great opportunity to give Friday’s keynote speech
@MusicTeachers_
conference on diversity and inclusion. Lots to talk about and much to change! And a sudden encounter with someone I know at the
@ABRSM
stall 😂 Thank you
@LboroSchMusic
#MTAConference2023
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Thrilled that this extraordinary story will be told and the music heard on Braimah’s violin
@LPOrchestra
. Another of our forgotten musical heroes -who created art and beauty with violin and sword 🎻⚔️
@timesculture
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What are parents to do? Three
@thekannehmasons
concerts in one night! Piano recital
@Isatakm
@BarbicanCentre
Braimah
@RoyalAlbertHall
@BSOrchestra
@ClassicFM
and
@ShekuKM
in USA
@TheCBSO
Sharing the support!
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Loved being on with these amazing women
@BBCRadio3
Being so close to Hilary Hahn
@violincase
while she played Bach exquisitely… What a privilege 🎻
That is a wrap! Thank you for tuning in to listen to our special edition of Music Matters - showcasing the musical stories of inspirational women across the UK 🎵✨💪👩
@KateMolleson
@KadiatuKM
@LeahBroad
@violincase
@annaclyne
Relisten here on
@BBCSounds
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Powerful Prokofiev 3 from
@IsataKm
last night
@TheCBSO
Symphony Hall. Auntie Isata and cousin, Kadie complete the double mother/daughter colour coordination- not pre-thought 😂 Catch up
@BBCRadio3
In Concert
@BBCSounds
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The last programme in this series! Stuart with the youngest Kanneh-Mason, 13 year-old Mariatu, tonight
@ClassicFm
9pm
@GlobalPlayer
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What a Sunday! Lovely meeting friends , including
@BernardineEvari
@LoveSsega
@KathrynEnticott
@southbankcentre
for three events with
@ShekuKM
@philharmonia
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An impromptu violin lesson for 3 year-old Caitlin with Konya in the middle of rehearsals for Antigua/Barbuda Youth Symphony
@ABHCUK
The sheer joy of playing following her comment ‘I want that!’ 🎻
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Happy Birthday, today, Kathryn
@enticottmusic
🍾🎉Get together
@ShekuKM
@IsataKm
@thekannehmasons
and (some of) fabulous management team on Saturday! (Missing Mariatu -busy in her lessons
@RoyalAcadMusic
)
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Loved last night
@RoyalNottingham
watching Konya’s performance of ‘Hiraeth’
@BBCCO
by her sister
@Isatakm
-on stage
@seckoukeita
Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Suntou Susso and Davide Mantovani 🎹🪕🎻🪘
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Unexpected benefit of the difficult train strike- 2 extra daughters, Jeneba and
@Isatakm
unable to get back to London after their recitals. Home cooking and family games in Nottingham instead- joy 😊
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An inspiring time at the JM Barrie Awards on Thursday,
#ActionforChildrensArts
speaking for Krystyna Budzynska, and meeting
@malorieblackman
Brilliant and deserving award winners (Special Contribution and Lifetime Achievement)🎉
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Fabulous Dohnanyi concerto tonight
@IsataKm
@rpoonline
@cadoganhall
Lots of siblings, members of
@enticottmusic
and
@deccaclassics
gathered to support. Only managed a quick photo of some of them while running for the train back to Nottingham 😅
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If you would like to hear House of Music
@OneworldNews
@WFHowes
narrated in my own voice, the audiobook is available!
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Ecstatic to have won the non-fiction Indie Book Award 2022 for House of Music
@OneworldNews
Lovely presentation
@TheBookcase1
Thank you independent bookshops
@booksaremybag
🎶
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This was a night to remember 🎉 Thrilled that A Musical Family Christmas
@LenBrown
won
@rts_mids
Factual and Specialist Factual Award last night. Loved meeting many inspiring people including
@TVMarv
#RTSMidsAwards
A Musical Family Christmas with
@thekannehmasons
takes the Factual and Specialist Factual Award. Congrats to MacLarty Brown Media and
@LenBrown
.
#RTSMidsAwards
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A great privilege to speak about the wonderful Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna
@BBCRadio2
and his glorious Peter and the Wolf
@MelbSymphony
- a truly important part of my children’s music education! (38:24)
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So much historical significance clings to our natural hair. Today we own it and celebrate
#worldafroday
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Time with family, working with Antigua and Barbuda’s young musicians and fabulous book launch for House of Music. Magical two weeks we’ll never forget
#PlayingtoInspire
@ABHCUK
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Thrilled to be a guest on ‘Antigua and Barbuda Today’ ABS TV talking about my book, ‘House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons’ - what a treat! Antigua book launch on Tuesday! 📙
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I just re-read the brilliant Alicia’s Gift
@jessicaduchen
Looking again at this lovely inscription for
@IsataKM
more than 15 years ago, it now reads like a blessing 😊🎹
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I’m thrilled to be an Ambassador
@WONDERfdn
Giving Tuesday Campaign, empowering women and girls through vocational training programmes. All donations on Tuesday 28 November will be matched by
@GlobalGiving
More information to come 🙏🏾
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We ensure we have the next generation of musicians and educators, the creative, thinking and empathetic young people we need, through inspiration, role models and giving our time
#musiceducation
@UKMusicMasters
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Remembering a brilliant Saturday evening! Thank you
#autumnfestivalnorfolk
@NorwichSchool
and the wonderful interviews
@1chriswebber
#HouseofMusic
Joyful music with Braimah 🎻 Jeneba 🎹 and Mariatu 🎻
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Still coming back to earth after our exciting Australia concert tour. Thank you to our lovely live music and House of Music audiences 🎶 📖
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Through music, let’s give voice to all children, who are the adults of our future.
@MusicTeacherMag
'Music was (and is) at the centre of how we brought up our seven children [...] It is vital to me to continue being a torch-bearer for excellence in music education and access for all.'
@KadiatuKM
@musicmarkuk
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So excited for this
@IsataKm
New album, new look 😊🎹
Thrilled to announce my new album 'Childhood Tales' which will be released on 26th May on
@deccaclassics
.
It features Mozart, Dohnányi, Debussy and Robert Schumann, and it's available to pre-order now on CD and Vinyl:
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Back together again! Mariatu loved seeing
@JessGillamSax
last night
@BBCPhilharmonic
@RoyalNottingham
Fabulous performance! Catch up
@BBCRadio3
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What is happening to music education? Catch up with Music Lessons
@yolandabrown
@ScalaRadio
every Sunday at 6pm -Listen back for 30 days
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