Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Patron

Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE has been an advocate and Ambassador for Music Masters since 2016.

A Decca Classics recording artist, Sheku released Shostakovich & Britten in May 2025, and in September 2025 the second Kanneh-Mason family album, River of Music was also released.

Sheku is a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Hannah Roberts and in May 2022 he was appointed as the Academy’s first Menuhin Visiting Professor of Performance Mentoring. 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.