Alexi Kenney is equally at home creating experimental programs, commissioning new works, soloing with orchestras, and collaborating with celebrated musicians. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.

Kenney began the 2025–26 season with his return to the Pittsburgh Symphony, and this season also returns to the Dallas Symphony. He debuts with the Houston Symphony, Slovak Philharmonic, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Santa Barbara Symphony, Wichita Symphony, and Erie Philharmonic. Highlights of recent seasons include concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Detroit Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, and l’Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. He has been featured in a play-lead role with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and New Century Chamber Orchestra, and has played recitals at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Mostly Mozart Festival, Frick Collection, Mecklenberg-Vorpommern Festival, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Kenney continues to perform and develop Shifting Ground, a multimedia program in collaboration with the video artist Xuan, which weaves together pieces for violin and electronics. He has performed Shifting Ground at the Celebrity Series of Boston, Ojai Festival, and Baryshnikov Arts Center, among others. He also explores his love for period instruments and playing, recently performing the complete Schumann violin sonatas on gut strings with Amy Yang on fortepiano.

Born in Palo Alto, Kenney is an alumnus of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, with whom he performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto in November 2016. He made his SF Symphony debut in July 2023 and will return to the Symphony next February to curate SoundBox.

Kenney is a graduate of New England Conservatory, where he studied with Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. Previous mentors in the Bay Area include Wei He, Jenny Rudin, and Natasha Fong. He plays a violin made in London by Stefan-Peter Greiner in 2009 and a bow made in Port Townsend, Washington, by Charles Espey in 2024.