Kenneth Renshaw Joins Violin Faculty at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Renshaw will begin teaching at the beginning of the 2025/26 academic year

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) has announced that the violinist Kenneth Renshaw has joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Violin. He will begin his time in the position on August 15, 2025.

A prize-winner in the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition and the winner of the inaugural Manhattan International Concert Artists Competition, Renshaw emerged on the scene in 2012 when he won the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition.

As soloist, Renshaw has played concertos with the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Lithuanian National Orchestra, the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Staatskapelle Weimar, and the China Philharmonic. In addition, his chamber music partners have included pianist Leon Fleisher, violinists Itzhak Perlman, Pamela Frank, and Cho-Liang Lin, flautist Sir James Galway, and violist Kim Kashkashian.

He has served as the Teaching Assistant to Itzhak Perlman at The Juilliard School since 2018 and Li Lin since 2017. His students have distinguished themselves, having won prizes in competitions including the Yehudi Menuhin, Zhuhai, Leonid Kogan, Johansen, Michael Hill, Elmar Oliviera, Stulberg, and Louis Spohr International Competitions.

"Kenneth Renshaw is a highly sought after performer with major competition wins and a distinguished resume of orchestral, chamber and solo appearances," said Pete Jutras, CCM Dean. "His teaching and artistic presence will be an outstanding addition to CCM's Strings Department. I am grateful to our search committee chair Rachel Calin and committee members Sandra Rivers and Kurt Sassmannshaus for their efforts with this successful search."