Henry is a violinist from Rochester, NY. He is the marketing manager and a full-time violin and fiddle teacher at the Kanack School of Musical Artistry, where he has been on faculty since 2021. His work focuses on using the violin as a means for greater self-understanding, discipline, mindfulness, and personal transformation.

Henry earned his Bachelor’s of Music in Violin Performance studying with Susan Waterbury as well as Kirsten Marshall and Calvin Wiersma at Ithaca College, where he also completed a long-term Suzuki Method pedagogy apprenticeship with Carrie Reuning-Hummel, earned a Master's in Business Administration, and completed a wide range of coursework and professional training in music education, violin repair, mathematics, information technology, and ensemble leadership.

Henry has previously served as a section player for the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Catskills Symphony Orchestra, the Tri-Cities Opera Company, and the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. He is now the music director and fiddler for The Irish Lassies and regularly performs and records as an improviser extraordinaire and singer with a variety of traditional, rock, jazz, and alternative acts in Rochester and throughout Upstate New York.

He is heard as a fiddler and vocalist on the Irish Lassies’ 2025 album Immigration Stories, as a string player on The Great Bear Trio’s 2016 album Magic Fantasy Dream Dance, and the string player on Eric Matthews’s 2025 album Folk Songs for Fairy Tales, Vol. I. He is currently recording for upcoming album releases in 2026 and 2027.

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