Shifting Ground at Somewhere Works

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Shifting Ground

Oct 4

Saturday

7:30 PM

Somewhere Works

featuring Alexi Kenney, Violin

Shifting Ground weaves together pieces for solo violin and violin/electronics by J.S. Bach and composers of other eras to form a program with dramatic arc, flow, and scope. Violinist Alexi Kenney's creative forces are combined with new media artist Xuan in an immersive multidisciplinary program that joins solo violin works from the 18th to 21st centuries with boundary-pushing projection art. Music by J.S. Bach and Nicola Matteis flows seamlessly into works by new voices such as Rafiq Bhatia and Angélica Negrón, as Xuan conjures immersive, imaginative landscapes in response.

RAFIQ BHATIA Descent (2021)
J.S. BACH Allemande from Partita in D minor, BWV 1004 (1720)
PAUL WIANCKO Allemande from X Suite for Solo Violin (2019)
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ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN The Violinist for violin and electronics, story by Ana Fabrega (2023)
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J.S. BACH Grave from Sonata in A minor, BWV 1003 (1720)
NICOLA MATTEIS Alia Fantasia (c. 1700)
KAIJA SAARIAHO Nocturne for solo violin (1994)
SALINA FISHER Hikari for solo violin (2023)
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MARIO DAVIDOVSKY Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape (1988)
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MATTHEW BURTNER Elegy (Muir Glacier 1889–2009) for violin and glacier sonification (2017/2020)
J.S. BACH Chaconne from Partita in D minor, BWV 1004 (1720)

About Alexi Kenney

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.

Alexi is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he studied with Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried. Previous mentors in the Bay Area include Wei He, Jenny Rudin, and Natasha Fong. He plays a violin made in London by Stefan-Peter Greiner in 2009 and a bow by Charles Espey made in Port Townsend, Washington in 2024.