The former teaching assistant to Itzhak Perlman will start the role of assistant professor of violin on 15 August 2025
The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) has announced the appointment of Kenneth Renshaw as its new assistant professor of violin. He will begin his role on 15 August 2025.
As an educator, Renshaw has served as Itzhak Perlman’s teaching assistant at the Juilliard School since 2018, and for Li Lin since 2017. He has served as content editor and pedagogical consultant for Perlman’s series on masterclass.com.
He runs a private violin studio in New York, with many of his students winning prominent competitions and acceptances into top music institutions.
Renshaw has 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. In 2018 he participated in a cultural exchange residency in São Paulo, Brazil teaching masterclasses and mentoring students from diverse backgrounds of the GURI Youth Orchestra programs, sponsored by Juilliard.
Renshaw obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard, where he studied with Perlman, Lin, Donald Weilerstein and Paul Neubauer as recipient of the Kovner Fellowship.
Renshaw won first prize at the 2012 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition and the inaugural Manhattan International Concert Artists Competition. He was also a prizewinner at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition.
CCM music dean Pete Jutras commented on the appointment: ’Kenneth Renshaw is a highly sought after performer with major competition wins and a distinguished resume of orchestral, chamber and solo appearances.
’His teaching and artistic presence will be an outstanding addition to CCM’s Strings Department.’
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