David Kenedy
David Kenedy
David Kenedy studied the cello with William Pleeth, Aldo Parisot and Boris Pergamenshikov. With a lifetime of experience as a chamber musician, David was a founder member of the London Mozart Trio and the London Piano Quartet and had the honour of being invited to perform in Jaqueline du Pré Memorial Concerts in both Lambeth Palace and the Wigmore Hall. His recordings of Schubert’s Piano Trio in Bb and Dvorák’s ‘Dumky’ Piano Trio were chosen as “Overall First Choice” in BBC Radio 3’s Record Review, and he has performed live on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM and internationally. To mark his 50th birthday, David recorded Bach’s complete Solo Cello Suites, released by Signum Classics in 2007 (“unaffected, honest musicianship at its best” – Brian Clark, Early Music Review; “Isserlis is a widely known and highly regarded cellist, yet I found myself less impressed with his effort than that of Kenedy” – Good-Music-Guide 2013) and he has more recently recorded Schubert’s Sonata for Arpeggione and Chopin’s Cello Sonata with his wife, Rianka Bouwmeester (Signum, June 2017). David is currently engaged on a major project with G. Henle Verlag to produce a new online edition of Haydn’s Cello Concerti in C and D Major, together with five new cadenzas he has written for these works, the C Major edition released in 2025, the D Major scheduled for early 2026.
Biography
David began teaching cello and chamber music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 1990. For many years, he directed the Greenwich International String Quartet Festival and the National Cello Festival “Go Cello!” held in Greenwich in 2018 and for some two decades, David directed the String Chamber Music Programme at Trinity Laban. For many years, he taught at the Dartington International Summer School, the Summer School of the Köln Hochschule für Musik in Montepulciano, St. Andrews University and the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds annual classes at London’s Wigmore Hall. David’s teaching has been broadcast on the BBC World Service and his former students play in the widest possible variety of situations around the world as soloists, chamber and orchestral musicians, including Stjepan Hauser of “2Cellos”, and cellist/singer/composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson. David speaks French, German, Italian and Dutch, as well as his native English, and has BA and MA degrees from the University of Cambridge and a Master of Music degree from Yale.
His recordings include: Bach Bachianas – Delos D/CD3041 (1986); The Sound of ‘Cellos – Delos D/CD3042 (1987); “The Beethoven Connection” – Amalie Records ALACD1201; “Schubert Bb/Dvorák ‘Dumky’ Piano Trios” – IMP Classics PCD1006; Cyril Scott Piano Quartet/Quintet – Dutton/Epoch CDLX 7116; Alan Bush – Cello Sonata / Piano Quartet – The London Piano Quartet – Dutton/Epoch CDLX 7130; F Schubert “Arpeggione Sonata and F Chopin Sonata for Cello and Piano SIGCD824; Bach, Cello Suites – David Kenedy, Signum Classics SIGCD091; Schubert, “Arpeggione Sonata”, and F Chopin Sonata for Cello and Piano, David Kenedy and Rianka Bouwmeester (piano), Signum Classics SIGCD824.