Violinist, Dylan Kennedy is the founder and director of the Keuka Lake Music Festival. A graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, he also serves as Chief Operating Officer at Blue Sky Homes, a ‘Smart and Green’ real estate development company in Phoenix, AZ.

An avid proponent of the arts, Dylan was the first ever recipient of three Entrepreneurial Musicianship awards from the New England Conservatory, and as a performer, has been praised for his “exceptionally well crafted dynamics and phrasing” and for “not shying away from the challenges” (Sarasota Harold Tribune).

Dylan has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Penfield Symphony Orchestra, Hochstein Alumni Orchestra, Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra, Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra, and at Bowling Green State University, and is looking forward to a solo appearance with the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra later this year. Dylan has won the Albright Award at the Rochester Philharmonic League Young Artist Competition, the David Hochstein Recital Competition, and gave live performances on the radio show ‘Live from Hochstein’ on WXXI in three consecutive years. He was also awarded 3rd prize in the Lewisville Lake Symphony International String Competition, and was a quarter-finalist in the Prague Spring International Competition.

Dylan received a Master of Music from New England Conservatory under Professor Ayano Ninomiya, and Bachelor of Music at the Cleveland Institute of Music under Professor Ivan Zenaty, with minors in Economics and Business Management from Case Western Reserve University. A native of Rochester, NY, he previously studied with the late Distinguished Kilbourn Professor, Zvi Zeitlin, at the Eastman School of Music.

When not performing or managing homebuilding operations, Dylan enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time outdoors with his wife Amy and Nala, their standard poodle puppy.