He is a regular member of the Smithsonian Chamber Players (DC), where he performs on their priceless collection of decorated Stradivaris, and with whom he has made several critically acclaimed recordings. Fewer was appointed William Dawson Scholar at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in September 2015, prior to which he was Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University, where he performed regularly as a member of the St. Lawrence String Quartet. He is a Juno and Prix Opus winner, a host of CBC’s This is My Music, and is the subject of an episode of People Uncut on the Biography Channel.

Mr. Kennerley recently made his Carnegie Hall solo début with the celebrated ensemble the Sejong Soloists. Performances this season include concerts at Alice Tully Hall, the Frick Collection, the feature holiday concert at the Metropolitan Museum’s MetLiveArts series, a West Coast tour, performances of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and a recording of Handel’s Messiah. He has also given concerts at Washington National Cathedral, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Princeton University, the Royal Albert Hall, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and other major venues throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Kennerley was a prizewinner at the 2008 Albert Schweitzer International Organ Competition, and a finalist at the inaugural (2013) Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition.

A recognized specialist in the realm of early music, he has collaborated with William Christie, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan, Sir Roger Norrington, Christopher Hogwood, Monica Huggett, Julian Wachner, and Gary Thor Wedow. He has given solo harpsichord concerts throughout the United States and Europe to great acclaim. A member of NYC-based early music ensemble, Sonnambula, Mr. Kennerley recently recorded virtuosic works for harpsichord by sixteenth-century English composer John Bull to be released on Centaur Records.

A native of the United Kingdom, Mr. Kennerley is Organist and Choirmaster at Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, New York City, where he directs the professional choir and coordinates the church’s extensive concert series. He holds degrees from Cambridge University and The Juilliard School.

He works regularly with ensembles: ARTEK, REBEL, Visceral Reaction, The New York Collegium, The Metropolitan Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, Staatstheater Stuttgart, New York City Opera, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Stadtstheater Klagenfurt, Tafelmusik, Opera Atelier, Les Violons du Roy, Piffaro, Spiritus Collective, Les Voix Baroques, Musica Pacifica, the Sejong Soloists, Les Voix Baroques, Apollo's Fire, and Lizzy and the Theorboys. He studied previously with Pat O'Brien at Mannes College of Music (New York City), receiving a Masters Degree in Historical Performance-Lute. Prior to his concentration on lutes, he studied Musicology at Washington University and received a B.M. in classical guitar from North Carolina School of the Arts.

He is on the faculty of the New York Continuo Collective, an ensemble of players and singers exploring the poetic and musical antecedents of opera in semester-length workshop productions. He has also taught at the Lute Society of America Summer Workshop in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Western Wind Workshop in ensemble singing. He is also assistant director of the St. Mary's Student Scholar program in Norwalk, CT, teaching Gregorian chant and renaissance music theory to children.

A loan of a Disklavier and MIDI grand was arranged through Yamaha for two years, and a repertoire of music for interactive systems developed using Max and custom PC software. Willey worked for five years in a technology exchange program between UCSD, Stanford, and LIPM, a studio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. He received a Fulbright grant to teach computer music performance and composition in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he participated in the development of the Brazillian Computer Music Association. Willey analyzed the music of Antônio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, wrote a book on Brazilian piano styles, and is now synthesizing the piano studies of Conlon Nancarrow and producing original music.