Alexi Kenney is forging a career that defies categorization, following his interests, intuition, and heart. This season alone includes performances with the Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, and Santa Barbara symphonies, as well as the Slovak Philharmonic and Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. In spring 2026, he curated San Francsico Symphony's SoundBox and performed his program Shifting Ground at Yale’s Schwarzman Center - a multimedia collaboration with the video artist Xuan, weaving together works for violin and electronics by J.S. Bach and several contemporary composers. Alexi is a founding member of Owls, an inverted quartet hailed as a “dream group” by The New York Times. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. Born in Palo Alto, Alexi is an alum of the Bowers Program (formerly CMS 2) at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is a graduate of the New England Conservatory.

The Harker School is a non-profit, private K-12 school in Silicon Valley that has earned international recognition for its top academics, quality teachers and students' achievements. Founded in 1893, Harker is the largest independent school of its kind in California, with a dedicated campus for each of its divisions – elementary school, middle school and upper school – in San Jose, Calif.