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Program

Miles Graber, piano

Rhapsody No. 1 Béla Bartók

Calliope Smith

Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 61 Camille Saint-Saëns

I. Allegro non troppo

Hyesun Hong

Violin Concerto in E Minor Julius Conus

I. Allegro molto

Sina Kalkan

Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28 Camille Saint-Saëns

Ella Kim

KENNETH RENSHAW

Born and raised in San Francisco, violinist Kenneth Renshaw came to international attention in 2012 after winning First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in Beijing. He was also a prize winner in the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition of Belgium, and First Prize recipient of the inaugural Manhattan International Concert Artists Competition. 

He has since performed extensively throughout many countries, both as soloist with orchestras including the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Lithuanian National Orchestra, the Jenaer Philharmonie and the China Philharmonic Orchestra, and recitals at notable venues such as the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele in Germany, and the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with many esteemed artists: pianist Leon Fleisher, violinists Itzhak Perlman, Pamela Frank and Cho-Liang-Lin, flautist Sir James Galway and violist Kim Kashkashian at festivals such as Caramoor, Verbier, Ravinia, and Music@Menlo. 

Equally committed to teaching and mentoring the next generation of young musicians, Kenneth currently serves as Teaching Assistant to Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School. He has also served as an assistant for the studio of Li Lin. Under his guidance, students have won top prizes in the Yehudi Menuhin, Zhuhai, Leonid Kogan, Johansen, Michael Hill, Elmar Oliviera, and Louis Spohr International Competitions. He maintains a thriving private violin studio in New York City, with students winning many national competitions and acceptances to Juilliard, New England Conservatory, Colburn, Music@Menlo, Morningside Music Bridge, and other prestigious institutions. 

He served as chamber music faculty at the Perlman Music Program's Summer Music School and Sarasota Winter Residency, and the Crowden Music Center's Chamber Music Workshop. In 2018 he participated in a cultural exchange and  residency in São Paulo Brazil teaching masterclasses and mentoring students from diverse backgrounds of the GURI Youth Orchestra programs.

Kenneth is committed to using technology to bring greater access to high level string teaching to a global audience, having served as content editor and pedagogical consultant for Itzhak Perlman's "Masterclass" series on masterclass.com.

He holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Itzhak Perlman, Li Lin, and Donald Weilerstein as recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. 

During the pandemic, Kenneth discovered his interest in pre-60s Romani jazz, becoming a member of the San Francisco-based musical collective The Hot Clams. He continues to perform with them to this day, most recently at the Cascais Jazz Festival in Portugal, and hopes to bring the sense of connection, joy, and spontaneity of live improvisation to his work as classical performer and educator.