Background
Mr. Kendrick was born in 1947 in Calgary, Alberta.
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Donald Kendrick
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Donald M. Kendrick is the Calgary, Alberta-born director of choral activities at California State University, Sacramento and the director of music at Sacred Heart Church where he conducts Schola Cantorum and Vox Nova, and the founder and artistic director of the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra.
Career
He has taught, led choirs and played the organ in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he was on the faculty at the then-University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, was the organist and choirmaster at Saint Paul"s Cathedral (Regina), the Anglican Cathedral in that city, and led the choral section of the summer arts school at Fort San, Saskatchewan, was organist and choirmaster at Christ"s Church Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton, Ontario where he conducted the Bach-Elgar Choir, and established the Hamilton Children"s Choir. He also conducted the Canadian Children"s Opera Chorus. Mr. Kendrick holds academic qualifications from:
the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago,
the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,
Stanford University and the
Eastman School of Music whose doctorate he holds, as well as the American Guild of Organists CHM (choirmaster) certificate
and received the American Choral Federation in New York’s Louise Rogers Goucher Memorial Scholarship.
He has been on the faculties of
the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus
the Eastman School of Music
Louisiana State University
the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music
The New York Philharmonic
Harvard University
Doctor Kendrick debuted in Carnegie Hall with the Verdi Requiem in 1995 and has frequently been featured on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio as a recitalist and conductor.
He has been active as a guest conductor and adjudicator for choral festivals throughout Canada and the United States of America. At the California State University, Sacramento he directs the graduate degree program in choral conducting. Doctor Kendrick conducted Carmina Burana at Carnegie Hall in May 2003 and completed a choral tour of England with performances in London, Oxford, Salisbury, Bristol and Sherborne in the Summer of 2003.
Doctor Kendrick has taken his CSUS choirs on three Canadian tours. In July 2004 he combined the CSUS program with the Sacramento Choral Society and conducted a European tour performing in Munich, Prague, Vienna and Budapest.
In July 2006 the Sacramento Choral Society made its debut in the People"s Republic of China, performing in Tianjin, Beijing, Xi"an and Jinan.
