The Bachs, the Mozarts, the Mendelssohns, the Strauss dynasty: history is full of famous musical families. Now comes the UK-based Kanneh-Masons: seven musically-talented siblings who have just embarked on their first Australian tour.

The Kanneh-Mason family. Photo supplied

Twenty-three-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason shot to popular fame in 2018 after performing at the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at Windsor Castle. But he’d already hit the headlines before that by winning the 2016 BBC Young Musician competition.

Since then, Sheku has performed widely and to much acclaim, including at the BBC Proms. He has also released a string of successful recordings on the Decca label, of which my favourite is still a remarkable account of the Elgar Cello Concerto.

His sister, the 26-year-old pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, is almost as well-known, having received the 2021 Leonard Bernstein Award and scoring a UK Classical Chart’s No 1 hit with her Decca release Romance – The Piano Music of Clara Schumann.

And it was in the company of these two fine musicians that we spent the first half of this Perth concert, which marked the beginning of the family’s tour.

Sheku...