Alexi is a violinist forging a career that defies categorization, following his interests, intuition, and heart. He is equally at home in creating experimental programs, commissioning new works, and soloing with major orchestras around the world, and collaborating with some of the most celebrated musicains of our time. Alexi is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season include returns to the Pittsburgh Symphony (Sibelius with Manfred Honeck), San Francisco Symphony, and Dallas Symphony (Barber with Daniele Rustioni), as well as debuts with the Houston Symphony and Slovak Philharmonic in Sofia Gubaidulina’s in tempus praesens. Additional appearances include Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and a range of U.S. orchestras. He curates San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox and appears in recital at leading venues including the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, 92nd Street Y, and Spoleto Festival. Recent seasons have brought collaborations with the Cleveland Orchestra, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and more, with recitals at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
A devoted chamber musician, Alexi has performed at major festivals including Caramoor, ChamberFest Cleveland, and Chamber Music Northwest and is a founding member of Owls. His multimedia project Shifting Ground with video artist Xuan weaves together pieces for violin and electronics, and he also performs on period instruments, recently performing the complete Schumann Violin Sonatas on gut strings with Amy Yang on fortepiano. A New England Conservatory graduate, Alexi plays a 2009 Stefan-Peter Greiner violin. alexikenney.com
