[SOLD OUT] Phillips Collection: Alexi Kenney, violin & Amy Yang, fortepiano

• Alexi Kenney, violin
• Amy Yang, fortepiano

Please note: Due to demand, all concerts for the Phillips Music 2024-25 Season are now sold out.

Two returning artists to the Philips, Alexi Kenney and Amy Yang bring an ambitious survey of the music of the Schumanns, performing Robert Schumann's complete violin Sonatas along with Clara Schumann's Three Romances for Violin and Piano. Kenney and Yang, both individually known for their absolute conviction, focus, and artistry, bring particular commitment to their selections for this occasion. Striving to re-create the sound the Schumanns wrote for, they will perform using gut strings on the violin and a fortepiano similar to one Schumann may have owned in his lifetime.

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About Alexi Kenney, violin

Violinist Alexi Kenney is forging a career that defies categorization, following his interests, intuition, and heart. He is equally at home creating experimental programs and commissioning new works, soloing with major orchestras around the world, and collaborating with some of the most celebrated musicians of our time. Alexi is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.

About Amy Yang, fortepiano

Ms. Yang, winner of the Kosciuszko National Chopin Piano Competition, has toured with such notables as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Tito Muñoz, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and collaborated with leading performers including Anne-Marie McDermott, Roberto Dian, Tessa Lark, and members of the Guarneri String Quartet.  Ms. Yang’s discography includes her solo album 'Resonance' (MSR Classics); a world premiere recording of Ezra Laderman compositions; and albums with violinists Itamar Zorman, Tessa Lark, and Danbi Um, tubist Carol Jantsch, and clarinetist José Franch-Ballester.