Biography

Kendall Kennison
Department: Music Department
Title: Associate Professor (Chair)
Office: KA 111
Phone: 410-337-6293
Email: kkenniso@goucher.edu

Kendall Kennison is an Assistant Professor of Music at Goucher College where he teaches theory and composition. The composer of dozens of pieces in genres including chamber, solo, orchestral, choral and opera, his music has been performed throughout the Northeast and Midwestern U.S. as well as in Europe. Numerous performers and ensembles have requested pieces from him, including pianist Lisa Weiss, guitarist Stanley Alexandrowicz, The New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, Duo Viardot, the Goucher Chamber Symphony and the Goucher Opera Workshop. One of his interests is writing music inspired by visual art or literature, and this has led to collaborations with artists Allyn Massey and Bernhard Hildebrandt, as well as music inspired by painters Robert Motherwell and Richard Diebenkorn, and novelist C.P. Snow, none of whom he ever met. He holds degrees from Vassar College (AB 1989), Rutgers University (MA 1992) and Peabody Conservatory (DMA 1996), and his composition teachers include Robert Hall Lewis, Robert Moevs, Richard Wilson and Annea Lockwood. In addition to his teaching duties at Goucher, he also coordinates the Ars Viva concert series, which has brought guest artists to Goucher from Russia, Italy, Germany, Austria, India and all around the U.S. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and three children.