BBC Proms 2017 - Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Dvořák, Popper & Walker

Prom 62: Chineke! 22:15 Wed 30 Aug 2017 Royal Albert Hall The UK’s first majority BME orchestra, Chineke!, makes its Proms debut. 2016 BBC Young Musician winner, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, is the soloist, and the concert also includes works by composers George Walker and Hannah Kendall. Programme Antonín Dvořák Rondo in G minor, Op 94 (7 mins) David Popper Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68 (10 mins) orch M. Schlegel George Walker Lyric for Strings (6 mins) Performers Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Chineke! Orchestra Kevin John Edusei conductor About This Event Hailed by critics as ‘fresh’ and ‘brilliant’, the UK’s first majority BME orchestra Chineke! makes its Proms debut in a programme including works by Pulitzer Prize-winning George Walker and young British composer Hannah Kendall, whose The Spark Catchers takes inspiration from the urgent energy of Lemn Sissay’s poem of the same name. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, win