NY Phil: Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Salonen, & 'Symphonie fantastique'

• Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
• Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, lauded as a "compelling musical storyteller" by The New York Times, joins the NY Phil in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1, by turns energetic and elegiac. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Berlioz's Romantic tale of a young artist's heart and fantasies, complete with a harrowing, hallucinatory march to the scaffold and a chaotic witches' sabbath.

Runs May 1-4.

About New York Philharmonic

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About Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason's mission is to make music accessible to all, whether performing for children in a school hall, at an underground club, or in the world's leading concert venues. After winning the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition, his 2018 performance at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was watched by two billion people.

About Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Esa-Pekka Salonen is known as both a composer and conductor. He is currently the Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, where he works alongside eight Collaborative Partners from a variety of disciplines ranging from composers to roboticists. He is Conductor Laureate for London's Philharmonia Orchestra, where, as Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor from 2008 until 2021, he spearheaded digital projects such as the award-winning RE-RITE and Universe of Sound installations and the much-hailed app for iPad, The Orchestra; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he was Music Director from 1992 until 2009, and was instrumental in opening the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall; and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is the cofounder – and until 2018 served as Artistic Director – of the annual Baltic Sea Festival.