Alexi Kenney

Violinist Alexi Kenney, the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, is forging a career that defies categorization, following his interests, intuition, and heart. He is equally at home creating experimental programs and com­mis­sioning new works, soloing with major orchestras around the world, and colla­borating with some of the most celebrated musicians of our time.

Kenney has soloed with the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, De­troit Sym­phony, Rochester Philhar­monic, Indi­an­apolis Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, l’Or­ches­tre de la Suisse Romande, and l’Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, as well as in a play-conduct role as a guest leader of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Chamber music continues to be a major part of his life, and he regularly performs at festivals including Caramoor, Chamber­Fest Cleveland, Chamber Music Northwest, Kron­berg, La Jolla, Ojai, Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Seattle, and Spoleto. He is a founding member of Owls and an graduate of the Bowers Program (formerly CMS 2) at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Kenney is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where he was a student of Miriam Fried and Donald Wei­lerstein. www.alexikenney.com.