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Donald M. Kendrick is the Calgary-born director of choral activities at Sacramento State University. He formerly taught, led choirs and played the organ in Regina, Saskatchewan, where he was on the faculty at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus and the organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's Cathedral (Regina), the Anglican Cathedral in that city, and Hamilton, Ontario where he conducted the Bach-Elgar Choir and was the organist-choirmaster at Christ's Church Anglican Cathedral.

Mr Kendrick studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and Stanford University, and he holds a doctoral degree from the Eastman School of Music where he has also been a faculty member. He was awarded the CHM (choirmaster) certificate from the American Guild of Organists and was the first recipient of the Louise Rogers Goucher Memorial Scholarship given by the American Choral Federation in New York. Mr Kendrick made his conducting debut in Carnegie Hall in a performance of the Verdi Requiem. He has taught at Louisiana State University, the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, and at the University of Saskatchewan in Regina, where many decades later he is vividly remembered as the most talented and distinguished choral musician ever to have worked there.

Mr Kendrick has appeared on CBC Radio as a recitalist and conductor, and he has been active as a guest conductor and adjudicator for choral festivals throughout Canada and the USA. At the California State University at Santa Clara he directs the graduate degree program in choral conducting. Mr 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.

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