Large Ensemble Works
Against the Grain (2009) 9"
wind ensemble with string trio.
Commissioned by Dinosaur Annex for the Young Composers Festival of 2009.
Premiere: Young Composers Festival, Allen Hall, Boston, MA (2009).
*** Recipient of an Honorable Mention in the International Alliance for Women in Music New Music Competition 2010 in the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize category.
Score available for purchase.
A Child Said, What Is the Grass (2008) 9"
for chamber orchestra, children's chorus, adult chorus, soprano solo.
Poem by Walt Whitman.
Commissioned by the Community Music Center of Boston.
Premiere: Quarter Note: A David Lapin Celebration, Boston, MA. (2008)
06/12 Community Music Center of Boston Spring Concert, Boston, MA.
Score available for purchase.
Country Fields (2006) 5"
Written for the Providence Mandolin Orchestra.
Premiere: Arts in the Village Concert Series, Rehoboth, MA.
08/06 Waterfire Providence and concerts during 2006-2007 season.
Score available for purchase.
Theatrical Works
Operator (2011)
In progress.
Le Bistro Cafe (2003) 1 hour, 45 minutes
2-act jazz-influenced musical comedy for 13 singers, jazz quartet.
Book, music, lyrics by Kendrick.
Songs: Overture, Job Blues (soprano, tenor) , Le Bistro Cafe, Personal Ads, She, Dinner for One, Happy Hour, The Moon Is Too Bright, Last Chance for Love, The Specials, I Thought I Knew You, I Fell for You, Autumntime, I Love You, A Person Like You (Finale)
Premiere: Willow Theatre Company at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre, North Hollywood, CA.(2003)
06/04 *Boston Birth of a Musical Festival, Boston, MA
08/04 *Summer Shorts Festival, Waltham, MA
(* denotes excerpts)
*** Recipient of a Subito Grant from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Composers Forum.
Emily (2001) 1 hour, 10 minutes
One-act chamber opera for 9 singers, piano.
Libretto by Kendrick, poems by Emily Dickinson.
Songs: Prelude, Of Bronze or Blaze, If You Were Coming in the Fall, Call to Prayer, New England Madrigal, I Envy Seas Whereon He Rides, Sextet, Grace, They Shut Me Up in Prose, Mabel Loomis Todd, Susan and Emily's Duet, My Brush Falls Short, If You Were Coming in the Fall
Premiere: Pasadena Balcony Theatre, Pasadena, CA. (2001)
06/02 Ebell of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
07/02 Mary K. Hail Music Mansion, Providence, RI.
07/04 Longfellow National Park Concert Sereis, Cambridge, MA
Vocal Works and Song Cycles
Untitled Elizabeth Bishop Song Cycle (2011)
Soprano, piano. In progress.
Disir (2008, 2010) 45"
SSA, folk harp, cello.
Poems from the Norse Poetic Edda.
with prelude and interludes improvised by harpist Reed McLaren.
I. "Yggdrasil" II. "Meyjar Margs" III. "Gullveigu"
Premiere: John Kleshenski Faculty Concert Series, Boston, MA (2008).
11/08 White Electric, Providence, RI.
12/08 Jitters Club, Southington, CT.
1/09 Private Event, Providence, RI.
3/09 SWAN Day Composers Festival, Boston, MA.
01/10 Longy Alumni Voices Concert Series, Cambridge, MA.
11/10 "The Latest Score" radio program, WOMR.org, Cape Cod, MA.
01/11 Alive By Her Own Hand: Women Composers as Performers of Their Work: A Fest-Conference, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
The Forgeries of Jealousy (2009) 5'
soprano, marimba, harp
Text by William Shakespeare.
Commissioned by the American Shakespeare Company, Los Angeles, CA.
Songs of Anxiety (2008) 6"
4-movement song cycle for child soprano and xylophone.
I. "elephantsorry" II. "Irrational Fears" III. "Unconditionally" IV. "Bedtime"
Poems by Eva Kendrick.
Premiere: John Kleshinski Faculty Concert Series, Boston, MA. (2008)
Score available for purchase.
Bee-Smoking (2008) 5.5"
mezzo-soprano, marimba, cello.
Commissioned by Miranda Loud and Rialto Arts: Where Nature Takes Center Stage
Premiere: Buccaneers of Buzz, Celebrating the Honeybee, Lincoln, MA (2008).
11/08 John Kleshinski Faculty Concert Series, Boston, MA.
Debit Dude (2008) 8"
3-movement song cycle for bass-baritone, vioiln, cello, piano.
I. "Resume Love" II. "Debit Dude" III. "Red-Headed Pox"
Poems by Paul Turner.
Commissioned by bass-baritone William O'Neill.
Premiere: San Francisco Conservatory Recital, San Francisco, CA. (2008)
Shining (2005) 30"
7-movement song cycle for multiple female singers (minimum of one soprano, one mezzo-soprano), flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion.
I. "Shining" II. "Greenish" III. "The Insult Sonnet" IV. "The Way It Is" V. "Now" VI. "I Want To Tell You" VII. "Swimmer In the Spreading Dawn"
Poems by Kathleen Spivack.
Premiere: Pickman Hall, Cambridge, MA (2005).
08/05 St. Martin's Church, Providence, RI.
08/05 Herring Run Arts Fest, Middleborough, MA.
09/05 Longy School of Music SeptemberFEST Concert Series, Cambridge, MA.
04/08 John Kleshinski Concert Series, Allen Hall, Boston, MA.
"Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel" (2004) 2"
Soprano, piano.
Premiere: Longy School of Music Composers Concert (2004).
"There's a Path that Leads to Nowhere" (2001) 3"
Treble, piano.
Poem by Corrine Roosevelt Robinson.
Premiere: Pasadena Balcony Theatre (2001).
In My Craft or Sullen Art (2000, 2001) 8"
I. "In My Craft or Sullen Art" II. "Now" III. "Sometimes the Sky's Too Bright"
3 movement-song cycle for tenor, piano.
Poems by Dylan Thomas.
Premiere: Marsh Chapel Recital, Provdience, RI (2001).
11/01 Pasadena Balcony Theatre, Pasadena, CA.
Evening Prayer (1996)
Tenor, soprano, bass soloists, children's choir, flute, cello, piano.
Reading, 1997.
Choral Works
Hymns for People (2010, 2011)
SATB choral series with piano accompaniment.
"When I First Came In," Lyrics by Eva Kendrick (SATB & piano)
Premiere: First Parish Medfield, Medfield, MA 11/21/2010
03/11 Canvass Sunday Service
"Holly King," Lyrics by Eva Kendrick (SATB & piano)
Premiere: First Parish Medfield, Medfield, MA 12/19/2010
"Sharing Carol," Lyrics by John Kornet (SATB, chimes choir & piano)
Premiere: First Parish Medfield, Medfield, MA 12/24/2010
"Peace at the Center," Lyrics by Eva Kendrick (SATB & piano)
Premiere: Music Sunday Service, First Parish Medfield, Medfield, MA 02/20/2011
"Awake, Arise," Lyrics by Eva Kendrick (SATB & Piano)
Premiere: First Parish Medfield, MA. 04/24/2011.
Score available for purchase.
To D.R. in Holloway (2009) 3.18"
SSAA
Poem by Laura Grey.
Commissioned by Anthology, a cappella quartet.
Premiere: First Parish Cambridge, (2009).
03/09 Christ Church, Andover, MA.
04/09 St. James Church, Fairmont, CT
04/09 First Church, Cohassett, MA.
09/11 International Alliance of Women in Music Congress, 2011, Flagstaff, AZ.
Score available for purchase.
The Woman in the Garden (2008) 6"
A cappella choral cycle for SSAA. In progress.
Poems include: "Eve's Advice To Her Daughter Norea at Play" and "Eve's Advice to Her Granddaughters"
Poems by Laurie Robertson-Lorant.
Premiere: SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now) RI (2008).
05/08 Anthology in Concert, Cambridge, MA.
Famous (2007) 7"
for mixed adult chorus (SAB), children's chorus and string quartet.
Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Commissioned by First Parish Needham Choir.
Premiere: Voices of the Spirit, Voices of New England Concert, First Parish Needham, Needham, MA (2007).
05/07 Grace Church, Newton, MA.
03/12 First Parish Needham, MA
04/12 First Parish Needham, MA
Sleep Now (Soon You'll Hear the Christmas Bells) (2005) 4"
Children's chorus, cello.
Poem by Algernon D'Ammassa.
Completed 2005.
Three Whimsical Holiday Songs (2000) 6"
3 songs for children's chorus, piano, tambourine, recorder.
Lyrics by Eva Kendrick.
Premiere: St. Mel's Children's Chorus, Woodland Hills, CA (2000)
12/00 Westwood Singers, Westwood, MA.
12/06 First Parish Medfield, Medfield, MA.
Score available for purchase.
The Unthinking Poet (1996) 1"
SSA.
Poem by Eva Kendrick.
Premiere: Rhode Island College Touring Vocal Ensemble (1996)
12/06 First Night Providence.
Score available for purchase.
Invictus (1996) 4"
SATB.
Poem by William Ernest Henley.
Premiere: Rhode Island College Touring Vocal Ensemble (1996).
Tell Me Smiling Child (1995) 3"
SSA.
Poem by Emily Bronte.
Premiere: First Night Providence (1995).
New England Madrigal (2001) 4"
SATB, piano.
Premiere: New Century Voices Concert, Roxbury, MA (2004).
6/05 Zeitgeist Gallery, Boston, MA.
Chamber Works
Through the Sieve (2011)
Clarinet, viola, piano.
Commissioned by the Animus Ensemble.
Premiere: TBA.
Medfield Mornings (2010) 5"
Solo piano.
Premiere: First Parish Medfield Music Sunday Service (2010).
...But Not Heard (2009) 10"
Prepared folk harp and cello.
Commissioned by the New Gallery Concert Series.
Premiere: New Gallery Concert Series Concert (2009).
9 Years, 2 Miles (2006) 5"
flute and piano.
Commissioned by Jessica Sherer, flutist.
Premiere: Recital, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA (2006)
02/07 Faculty Concert Series, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA.
12/07 John Kleshenski Faculty Concert Series, Boston, MA.
Score available for purchase.
Cinderella and the Step-Family (2005) 5"
for 3 cellos and clarinet.
Commissioned by the Quincy Quartet.
Premiere: The Growing Center, Boston, MA (2005)
08/05 Zeitgeist Gallery, Boston, MA
09/05 Back Pages Books, Boston, MA
Cricket-Grasshopper (2005) 9"
3-movement trio for flute, violin, piano.
Commissioned by Second Star to the Right piano trio.
Premiere: Longy School of Music Composer Series (2005).
06/05 Recital, Longy School of Music.
Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Viola (2004) 7"
2 movement work.
Premiere: Longy School of Music Composer Concert Series, (2004).
06/04 Zeitgeist Gallery Concert, Boston, MA.
07/05 Pickman Hall, Cambridge, MA.
09/05 St. Martin's Church, Providence, RI.
*** Recipient of an Honorable Mention by the International Alliance of Women in Music New Music Search 2011 in the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize category.
Score available for purchase.
Film Music
Yellow Jacket (2010)
Featured song: "Last Chance for Love"
Written by Eva Kendrick, performed by Anne's Cordial.
Short independent film.
Directed by Chris Nash.
Premiere: Madcap Theatre, Tempe, Arizona, 10/2010
*** Awards: Best Drama, Best Actor, Campus Moviefest, 2010.
To a Man (2009)
Documentary film score, keyboards.
Directed by Mikhael Atone.
Funded by a COHASI Grant.
Work in Progress Premiere: College of Staten Island, NY (2008).
Additional Screenings: Lumen Fest 2010, Cargo Cafe, Martini Red, College of Staten Island, Show Gallery.
The Vigil (2006)
Short film.
Electroacoustic soundtrack incorporating cellos, flute, keyboard, voice.
Directed by Mikhael Antone.
Realizing Glen (2005)
Short film. Soundtrack for violin, flute, piano, guitar, voice.
Directed by Barb Siedl.
*** Award: Best Sci-Fi Film, National Film Challenge.
Electroacoustic Music
Now Is Then (2005) 3"
MAX/MSP piece utlizing voice.
Premiere: Longy School of Music Composers Concert (2005).
05/05 Longy School of Music Electroacoustic Music Concert, Boston, MA.
Solitaire (2004) 4"
a piece with soprano and deck of cards as sound sources. Cubase.
Premiere: Longy School of Music Electroacoustic Music Concert (2004)
06/05 Zeitgeist Gallery Concert, Boston, MA.
01/05 Emanation Project, Providence, RI.
Other Projects
Miscellaneous improvised music for Water(wars), an installation art piece performed at the Magdalena Project (USA), Providence, RI. 30"
