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 Series, 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 Providence and Boston. Voice 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.
Recent 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 premiered at the John Kleshinski Faculty Concert Series in November, 2008. Other premieres in 2009 include a piece for cello and prepared harp for the New Gallery Concert Series, a piece for the female a cappella quartet Anthology, and a chamber work for Dinosaur Annex and the Community Music Center of Boston Wind Ensemble, for the Sixth Annual Young Composers Festival Concert.
