Biography:

Jazz trumpeter Peter Kenagy's music has been called elegant and adventurous, both modern and rooted in tradition, with a sound all its own. Equally at home with Stravinsky, Coltrane, Bach, and Afro/Latin-jazz, Kenagy draws on a vast range of styles in his own original compositions and arrangements.

Kenagy has played at festivals and concerts in Switzerland, Holland, France, Italy, China, Mexico, and Panama, as well as throughout the United States. He has performed with young contemporaries and elder statesmen alike, joining the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra for a recording session featuring legends Bob Brookmeyer and George Garzone, and playing with the trio of pianist Carmen Staaf at the 2004 Panama Jazz Festival.

His collaborations include musicians from a vast range of styles, including Ran Blake, Mali drummer Mohamed "Joh" Camara, 1920s-style Happy Feet Dance Orchestra, the Felipe Salles Quintet, spoken-word adventures with the Indigo Invention Group, Jack Donahue's 2007 album A Small Blue Thing featuring Joe Locke, as well as many small jazz combinations with Jeremy Udden, Austin McMahon, Randy Ingram, and Nathan Blehar.

Kenagy's debut album, Little Machines, was released by the Barcelona-based Fresh Sound New Talent label in 2004, and features seven original compositions performed by the Peter Kenagy Sextet. 

Kenagy has also self-released several other albums available through his website, including 2007's Space Western, which features an ambient, meditative mood created by electric piano and guitar, and 2006's Double Happiness, performed by a quartet where he is joined by Jeremy Udden. In 2010, Kenagy released Coolidge on the Fractamodi label, which features Kenagy's eclectic approach to hard-bop and swing jazz in a classic quartet setting.

Bachelor's degree and Master's degree, New England Conservatory. Doctoral of Musical Arts degree, dissertation on George Russell's album The Jazz Workshop, University of Illinois. Studies with Danilo Pérez, Bob Brookmeyer, Charles Schlueter, George Garzone, Jerry Bergonzi, George Russell, Alan Fletcher, Ran Blake, Tito Carrillo, Michael Ewald, and Ronald Romm. Former faculty of New England Conservatory Preparatory School, Milton Academy, and Camp Encore-Coda. Recordings on Fresh Sound New Talent and Fractamodi.