Eva Kendrick is a composer and vocalist. She writes in many genres including opera, chamber music, song cycles, electroacoustic music, and film music. She is very active in the Boston and Providence music communities, serving as Music Director at First Parish Medfield and as music theory and voice teacher at the Community Music Center of Boston, where she is a composer-in-residence. She maintains a private voice studio and is in high demand as a freelance composer.

Kendrick has been commissioned by ensembles and organizations including Dinosaur Annex, Rialto Arts, the New Gallery Concert Series, the Community Music Center of Boston Chamber Orchestra, and the Providence Mandolin Orchestra. She has written scores for filmmakers in New York, Boston, and Providence. Kendrick enjoys collaborating with poets and has set poems by Kathleen Spivack, Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul Turner, and Laurie Robertson-Lorant, producing large-scale song cycles and choral works.

Venues for Kendrick’s original music include the EBELL of Los Angeles, Wimberly Theatre, WaterFire Providence, the Magdalena Project (USA), Mary K. Hail Music Mansion, Pasadena Balcony Theatre, Pickman Hall, Allen Hall, First Night Providence, and the radio station WRBB. Festivals and concert series include the Longy School of Music’s SeptemberFEST, Boston’s Birth of a Musical Festival, Summer Shorts Festival, the Longfellow National Park Concert Series, and the Arts in the Village Concert Series.

Awards include ASCAPLU$ Awards from 2000 to the present, a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum, Longy School of Music Scholarship, a USA Today Award, and the Robert J. Graves Music Scholarship from the Chopin Club of Providence, RI. She is a member of ASCAP, the International Alliance of Women in Music (IAWM), and the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network. She has been featured on the SEAMUS (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) Web site and is a contributor to the IAWM newsletter.

A professional vocalist, she has performed with light opera companies in New England and California and has won several awards, including first, second and third prizes in NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Competitions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Teachers include Shigemi Matsumoto, Noel Velasco, and Karyl Ryczek. She frequently performs works by other local composers such as Chris Eastburn, Elizabeth Knight, and Miriam Miller. She also writes for and performs with a contemporary folk band, Anne’s Cordial.

She received a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Rhode Island College and attended the Summer Training Congress at the Tony Award-winning American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. She received an M.M. in Composition with Distinction from the Longy School of Music in 2006, where she studied with composer John Howell Morrison.

Upcoming premieres include “Disir,” a chamber work for voice and harp based on the Norse Poetic Edda, and “Songs of Anxiety,” a song cycle for child soprano and xylophone, both of which will be premiered at the John Kleshenski Faculty Concert Series. Premieres in 2009 will include an electroacoustic piece for harp and cello for the New Gallery Concert Series, a piece for an Anthology (women’s vocal quartet) concert, and a chamber work for Dinosaur Annex, a presenter of new music, for the Young Composers Festival Concert.

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"Fresh melodies. We'll no doubt be hearing more from [Kendrick]." Providence Journal 

[about Eva's band Anne's Cordial] "The Providence-based female trio Anne's Cordial can make a 16th-century Spanish Christmas carol sound like the blues, then turn around and make Robert Johnson's "Hellhound on My Trail" sound like a piece of medieval music. They've got piano, guitar and harp, but the voices are the thing, both individually and (especially) combined. Highly recommended." Providence Journal

"Seamlessly weds verse, biography and song. "Emily" proves pure poetry." Attleboro Sun Chronicle

["Country Fields" was] one of the highlights of the evening...a calm, atmospheric piece that brought to mind some modern forms of Celtic music. Swansea News

"Kendrick's harmonies are satisfying...made creative use of the voices." Emily Dickinson International Society Newsletter

"Le Bistro Cafe is] Just plain fun...The jokes and local L.A. digs are on target." NoHo News L.A.

"Kendrick's masterful execution of harmony and melody is both tremendously accessible and deeply complex. Her music is always a joy to perform." Jessica Sherer, flutist