Date & Time: Saturday June 1, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1750 29th Avenue, San Francisco
Tickets: $25 General, $20 Seniors/Students.
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Program
- J.S. Bach – Sonata no. 2 in A minor for Solo Violin, S. 1003
- S. Prokofiev – 5 Melodies for Violin and Piano Op. 35a
- C. Debussy – La cathédrale engloutie for Piano (1910)
- E. Elgar – Sonata for violin and Piano Op. 82
- M. de Falla, arr. Kreisler – Danse Espagnole from La Vida Breve
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About the Artists
“Even among a high-class field Kenneth Renshaw was the stand-out…Marked by true chamber music making and a natural, honest sense of communication.” - Ariane Todes, The Strad Magazine
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 and Li Lin at the Juilliard School. His students (both privately and through Juilliard) have won top prizes in the Yehudi Menuhin, Zhuhai, Leonid Kogan, Johansen, and Louis Spohr International Competitions and have been admitted to Juilliard, New England Conservatory, Colburn, the Perlman Music Program, and other prestigious programs and 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. Kenneth is committed to using technology to bring greater access to the highest level of string teaching to a wider audience, having served as content editor and pedagogical consultant for Itzhak Perlman’s “Masterclass” series on masterclass.com. He holds a Bachelors and Masters degree from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin as recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. Other important teachers and mentors include founding Cleveland Quartet violinist Donald Weilerstein, Ian Swensen, and Lynn Oakley.
During the pandemic, Kenneth discovered his interest in pre-60s Django jazz, joining San Francisco Bay Area based band The Hot Clams as a guest artist for outdoor socially-distanced water concerts on boats in the San Francisco Bay. 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.
“A standing ovation was the reward for a stunning performance.” - Classical Sonoma
Keisuke Nakagoshi began his piano studies at the age of ten, arriving in the United States from Japan at the age of 18. Mr. Nakagoshi earned his Bachelors degree in Composition and Masters degree in Chamber Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Graduating as the recipient of multiple top awards, Keisuke was selected to represent the SFCM for the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project, a program featuring the most promising young musicians from major conservatories across the United States.
Mr. Nakagoshi has performed to acclaim on prestigious concert stages across the United States, including the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. He has received training from some of the most celebrated musicians of our time – Emanuel Ax, Gilbert Kalish, Menahem Pressler, Robert Mann, Paul Hersh, David Zinman – and enjoys collaborating with other accomplished musicians such as Lucy Shelton, Ian Swensen, Jodi Levitz, Robin Sutherland, Lev Polyakin, Axel Strauss, Mark Kosower, Gary Schocker and also conductors such as Alasdair Neale, George Daugherty, Nicole Paiement, Michael Tilson Thomas and Herbert Blomstedt.
Mr. Nakagoshi is Pianist-in-Residence at The San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the award winning Opera Parallele. He resides in San Francisco.