Kenneth Renshaw and Keisuke Nakagoshi in concert

Date & Time: Saturday June 1, 2022 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

1. Sergei Prokofiev 5 Melodies
2. Edward Elgar Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 82
3. To be announced

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.

​He has collaborated as a chamber musician with many esteemed artists including pianist Leon Fleisher, violinists Itzhak Perlman, Pamela Frank and Cho-Liang-Lin, and violist Kim Kashkashian at festivals such as Caramoor, Marlboro, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, and Music@Menlo.

Increasingly passionate about teaching, Kenneth currently serves as Teaching Assistant to violinist Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin at the Juilliard School. His students have won prizes in the Yehudi Menuhin, Leonid Kogan, and Louis Spohr International Competitions and have been admitted to notable schools, chamber music festivals, and other programs.

Kenneth 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.

​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 jazz, joining Sausilito-based jazz band The Hot Clams as a guest artist for outdoor socially-distanced water concerts in the San Francisco Bay. He continues to perform with them to this day.

“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.