Beau Kenyon

Composer · Collaborator

Beau Kenyon is a Paris-based composer and cultural strategist whose work moves between the concert hall, the gallery, and the civic sphere — always asking the same question: what becomes possible when we center empathy and curiosity to solve problems and create?

His 2022 ballet Of Gravity and Light, premiered by Ballet Des Moines in partnership with NASA and PBS, translates the astrophysics of the solar system into music, movement, and large-scale film projection. His next ballet, The Raven, premieres in October 2026 — a meditation on grief, self-isolation, and Edgar Allan Poe, again with choreographer Tom Mattingly and Ballet Des Moines. His sound installation for Accumulation of Dreams was recently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2024).

In 2017 he founded Oakley Collective for Arts + Research, a nonprofit consulting firm supporting cultural institutions across the US and Europe. He is on faculty at Northeastern University and serves on the board of the American Composers Forum.

Kenyon finds solutions by building healthy collaborative systems. Everything else follows from there.