John Kennedy is a music conductor and composer who was trained at the Oberlin Conservatory and Northwestern University. He co-founded and led the new music ensemble, Essential Music, and founded Santa Fe New Music, serving as artist President/Chair of the American Music Center. Kennedy’s musical compositions have been performed worldwide, including in San Francisco, Paris, Zurich, Singapore, London, and more. He is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Music at Santa Clara University and Resident Conductor and Director of Orchestral actives of Spoleto Festival USA.
Discipline:
Music Composition
John Kennedy
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1972, 1973
More:
www.johnkennedymusic.com
Studios
Monday Music
John Kennedy worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…