Christopher Kendall has been Dean, School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan since 2005. Prior he was the Director of the University of Maryland School of Music from 1996-2005, and from 1993 to 1996, Director of the Music Division and Tanglewood Institute of the Boston University School of the Arts. He was also Associate Conductor of the Seattle Symphony from 1987 to 1992.
Kendall has been Artistic Director of the 21st Century Consort, ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution, since its founding in 1975. Kendall also founded the Folger Consort, early music-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., in 1977, and has performed, toured nationally and recorded extensively with both ensembles. From 1979 to 1986, Kendall was artistic director of Millennium, an arts production company involved in the presentation and production of festivals and film. Professor Kendall was Music Director of the Washington Sinfonia from 1978 to 1981, and has been guest conductor with the Seattle Symphony, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (Ontario), the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Collage and Dinosaur Annex, and the Orchestra, Symphony and Chamber Orchestra of The Juilliard School. Kendall’s performances can be heard on the Innova, Bridge, Nonesuch, ASV, Centaur, Bard, Delos, CRI and Smithsonian Collection labels.