Alexi Kenney - Artist Bio

The recipient of a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Alexi Kenney has been named “a talent to watch” by the New York Times, which also noted his “architect’s eye for structure and space.” His win at the 2013 Concert Artists Guild Competition led to a critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut recital at Weill Hall.

2019/20 highlights include debuts with the Omaha Symphony, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Asheville Symphony and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne as well as a recital appearance with Orion Weiss at Wigmore Hall. Alexi has appeared as soloist with the Detroit, Columbus, California, Jacksonville and Portland symphonies, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, the Staatstheater Orchestra of Cottbus and A Far Cry. He has appeared in recital at Caramoor, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Phillips Collection and the Mostly Mozart Festival.

Chamber music continues to be a main focus of Alexi’s life – he is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two). He tours with Musicians from Marlboro and musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Institute and regularly performs at festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Prussia Cove, Ravinia and Yellow Barn. He has collaborated with artists including Pamela Frank, Miriam Fried, Steven Isserlis, Kim Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer and Christian Tetzlaff.

Born in Palo Alto, California in 1994, Alexi holds a Bachelor of Music and Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. Previous teachers include Wei He, Jenny Rudin and Natasha Fong.