His performances, described by reviewers as "beautiful and exciting," "lively and stylish," and "first-rate," have resulted in his growing demand as a guest conductor. He will appear this season with the Symphony of Southeast Texas and the New Mexico All-State Orchestra. Recent engagements including traveling to Austria to begin the Florida Young Artist Orchestra’s residency in Gmunden and returning to Fort Collins to conduct the honor orchestra at CSU’s summer music camp. Last January he appeared with Denver’s Continental Orchestra. Over the past four seasons Maestro Kenney has guest conducted at the Edinburgh Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Buffalo Philharmonic, returned to the New Mexico Symphony for tours and performances of The Nutcracker, and had debuts with the Williamsburg Symphonia (VA), and the Acadiana Symphony (LA). Other recent appearances include the Richmond Symphony, the Long Beach Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the San Juan Symphony, and the Virginia All-State Honor Orchestra. His recent concert with the Dubuque Symphony was called the "best performance of the season" by the local press. He has also appeared with the Savannah Symphony, Sewanee Music Festival, Spokane Symphony, Virginia Ballet Theater, Norfolk Chamber Consort, Coastal Valleys Symphony, Universal Ballet Korea, Virginia Waterfront International Arts Festival, and the Virginia Chorale.

In six seasons as the Virginia Symphony's Associate Conductor, Wes Kenney appeared more than 350 times with that orchestra. He was responsible for the programming and conducting of Subscription, Pops, Family and Young People's Concerts as well as promoting the symphony throughout the region in speaking engagements.

In 2003, Mr. Kenney concluded his tenure at the College of William and Mary after three seasons as Director of the William and Mary Symphony Orchestra. He took the WMSO on their first-ever international tour to Sicily and Rome in May of 2002. Their Mahler Symphony No. 1 performance in April 2003 was described in the Virginia Gazette as "the most moving piece of music that we have ever heard in Williamsburg. It was wonderful in every respect."

Mr. Kenney was Co-principal Conductor of the Oakland Lyric Opera for four seasons and Music Director of the Virginia Ballet Theater. Awarded the prestigious Carmen Dragon Conducting Prize in 1992, Wes Kenney served as Music Director of the Oakland Youth Orchestra for five seasons. He led that orchestra on a successful tour of Asia in 1995 and Central Europe in 1993. Mr. Kenney's programming for OYO won ASCAP awards in 1995 and 1996.

Mr. Kenney has also enjoyed success directing from the orchestra pit for opera, ballet, and musical theater. During the 2007-2008 season he will conduct productions of I Pagliacci, Cavelleria Rusticana, Falstaff, La Traviata, and Turandot. 2006-2007 he conducted CSU Opera’s production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and Lehar’s The Merry Widow while in the same season conducting Opera Fort Collins productions of Verdi’s Aida, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Rossini’s Barber of Seville. In 2004-2005 he conducted Bizet’s Carmen and Copland’s Tenderland. In 2002 he headed to New York to conduct Taconic Opera’s production of Carmen. He has appeared as conductor for Gianni Schicchi and Die Kluge for Oakland Lyric Opera, Dear World, Into the Woods, and Secret Garden for San Francisco State University, Oliver for TOP Theater, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat for the University of Southern California and No, No, Nanette for the Masquers Club. For the latter he won a LAWEE award as music director of the year. In addition he has conducted numerous performances of The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, The Firebird, and many other dance works.

Mr. Kenney is a past president of the Conductors Guild, a 2000 member service organization to the conducting profession. He currently is on the Guild’s advisory board. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University. Additional studies include three years as a fellow at the Conductors Institute, several American Symphony Orchestra League and Conductors Guild Workshops, and the Sandpoint Festival. His teachers include Harold Farberman, Hans Beer, Gunther Schuller, Hans Swarovsky and Miltiardes Carides.