Lee University's Performing Arts Series welcomes violinist and pianist Monday

Alexi Kenney

Lee University School of Music welcomes violinist Alexi Kenney and pianist Renana Gutman to campus Monday, Nov. 13, to continue the university's Performing Arts Series.

Their concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Squires Recital Hall, located in the Humanities Center on Lee's Cleveland, Tenn., campus. They will perform works by Bach, Respighi, Salonen and Schubert.

The recipient of a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Kenney has been praised by The New York Times for "immediately drawing listeners in with his beautifully phrased and delicate playing." He won the 2013 Concert Artists Guild Competition and has performed at Carnegie Hall.

Kenney's main focus is chamber music. He holds a bachelor's degree in music from New England Conservatory of Music, where he is currently completing his Artist Diploma.

Gutman has played on four different continents in locations such as the Louvre Museum, St. Petersburg's Philharmonia, Carnegie Hall and Stresa Music Festival. The New York Times describes her playing as "passionate and insightful."

She is a member of the Echoes of Hope project, which is dedicated to performing obscure pieces by Jewish composers who died in the Holocaust. A native of Israel, Gutman came to the United States to complete her bachelor and master of music degrees at Mannes College of Music.

Along with performing, Gutman has taught at the Yehudi Menuhin Music School in the United Kingdom. She currently teaches at Bard College Preparatory in New York.

Monday's performance is open to the public and free of charge, but tickets are required due to limited seating. Tickets will are available in the Dixon Center Box Office from 3 to 6 p.m., today, Friday and Monday; or, call 423-614-8343.