UC College-Conservatory of Music Dean Pete Jutras has been busy announcing new faculty members to fill many vacancies that have occurred this year at CCM. He’s just announced the appointment of Kenneth Renshaw as CCM’s new Assistant Professor of Violin.
In addition, the dean has announced Tyler Ehrlich, DMA, as CCM’s new assistant professor and Assistant Director of Wind Studies.
Both faculty appointments officially begin on Aug. 15, 2025.
Renshaw, a native of San Francisco, Renshaw has served as teaching assistant to Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School since 2018. He also served as teaching assistant for Li Lin since 2017, and has a thriving private teaching studio in New York. Under his guidance, his students have won top prizes at major competitions.
“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,” Jutras said.
Renshaw came to international attention in 2012 after winning First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in Beijing. He was also a prize winner in the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition of Belgium and First Prize recipient of the inaugural Manhattan International Concert Artists Competition.
He has performed extensively around the world: as soloist with orchestras and in recital. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with many esteemed artists: pianist Leon Fleisher, violinists Itzhak Perlman, Pamela Frank and Cho-Liang Lin, flutist Sir James Galway and violist Kim Kashkashian at festivals such as Caramoor, Ravinia and Music@Menlo. 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.
Kenshaw holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Itzhak Perlman, Li Lin, Donald Weilerstein and Paul Neubauer as recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. He is an alumnus of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Precollege Division and the Crowden School.
Recently, he has cultivated an interest in pre-60s Romani jazz, becoming a member of the San Francisco-based musical collective Cantadora and the Hot Clams in 2020. He continues to perform with them.
Tyler Ehrlich, CCM’s new assistant professor and Assistant Director of Wind Studies, will conduct the CCM Wind Ensemble, oversee CCM’s doctoral cognate in wind conducting and teach conducting, literature and music education courses.
Ehrlich received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Music degree from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from Cornell University.
Ehrlich maintains a varied conducting career with experience with secondary, collegiate, community and professional ensembles. While in Atlanta, he served on the faculty of Emory University, where he conducted the Emory Wind Ensemble and taught in Georgia public schools. He was also Associate Conductor of the Atlanta Wind Symphony, leading the ensemble in performances at the Midwest Clinic and the Georgia Music Educators In-Service Conference.
His transcription of Spiritual Suite by Margaret Bonds marks the first commercially available wind band arrangement of her music. While in Austin, Ehrlich produced wind ensemble recording sessions for composers including David Biedenbender, Kathaj Copley, Marie Douglas, Arnold Rosner and Adrian Sims.
He has given invited talks at the Midwest Clinic, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles International Conference, the College Band Directors National Association National Conference, and the Texas and Georgia Music Educators Conferences. Ehrlich also hosts From the Butler School on Classical 89.5 KMFA and has directed symphonic media livestreams and IMAG productions in Houston, Austin and Fort Worth.
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