Born in Wellington (New Zealand) in 2002, Ben Kennedy began his musical studies at the age of six. He studied violin with Ann White and later moved on to piano with Maria Vink, Jennifer Scarlett and Jian Liu.
Ben Kennedy has enrolled in the Classical Performance programme at Victoria University of Wellington in 2021, where he is studying with Jian Liu, Emma Sayers and Richard Mapp. In 2024, he obtained a music degree.
He has taken part in numerous piano competitions in New Zealand, including the Lewis Eady New Zealand National Piano Competition (2021/22), where he was a semi-finalist, and was awarded 1st prize at the IRMTNZ Wellington Sonata Celebration (2022).