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Happy Birthday, VC Artist Alexi Kenney!

The VC Artist is celebrating his 29th birthday today!

 

A graduate of the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Miriam Fried and Donald Weilerstein, Alexi was awarded a 2020 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and a prestigious 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is a former prize winner at the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and the 2012 Menuhin Competition. Alexi is a member of The Bowers Program at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

In April 2021, Alexi released his first recording, Paul Wiancko’s X Suite for Solo Violin, accompanied by a visual album that pairs each of the seven movements of X Suite with seven contemporary sculptures from the Donum Estate in Sonoma, California.

In 2023, Kenney's new project Shifting Ground will weave together pieces for solo violin and violin/electronics by J.S. Bach and composers of other eras to form a program with a dramatic arc, flow, and scope. For this program, he has commissioned two new works by composers Salina Fisher and Angélica Negrón.

Kenney's recent solo engagements include performances with the Detroit Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and in a play-conduct role as guest leader of both the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony.

 

Alexi made his Violin Channel Vanguard Concerts debut in Vanguard Concert Series 2. The episode features works by Bach, Colombi, Wiancko, Muhly, and Biber.

 

upcoming events

july 2025

11julAll Day25Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition(All Day) Harbin Grand Theatre, China, Heilongjiang, Harbin, Songbei District, 滨水大道 邮政编码: 150010Event Type :competitions Event TagsAlice and Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition,competition

august 2025

22augAll Day30Tibor Varga International Junior Violin Competition(All Day) Ferme-Asile, Promenade des Pêcheurs 10 1950 Sion SuisseEvent Type :competitions Event Tagscompetition,Tibor Varga

25augAll Day31Banff International String Quartet Competition(All Day) The Banff Centre, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive Box 1020 Banff T1L 1H5 Canada Event Type :competitions Event TagsBanff International String Quartet Competition,string quartet

27augAll Day07sepFerruccio Busoni International Piano Competition(All Day) Il Teatro Comunale di Bolzano | Das Stadttheater von Bozen, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, Platz 40, 39100 Event Type :competitions Event TagsFerruccio Busoni International Piano Competition,Piano Competition

31augAll Day07sepArturo Toscanini International Conducting Competition(All Day) Teatro Regio, Str. Giuseppe Garibaldi, 16/a, 43121 Parma PR, ItalyEvent Type :competitions Event TagsArturo Toscanini International Conducting Competition,conducting competition

31augAll Day07sepBartok World Competition - Piano(All Day) Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest Liszt Ferenc tér 8, 1061 HungaryEvent Type :competitions Event TagsBartok World Competition

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