The recipient of a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Alexi Kenney has been named “a talent to watch” (New York Times). His win at the 2013 Concert Artists Guild Competition at the age of nineteen led to a critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut recital at Weill Hall. Highlights of Kenney’s 2017–2018 season include debuts with the Detroit, Columbus, California, and Amarillo Symphonies and recitals with pianist Renana Gutman on Carnegie Hall’s Distinctive Debuts series and at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Lee University in Tennessee, and the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University in California. He joins the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two program beginning in the 2018–2019 season.