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Upcoming Concerts:

Weronika Balewski, flute
Vahan Sargsyan, piano
Mellon Institute Auditorium
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia
Martch 26, 2012  7:30 PM
performing Four Songs


Patrick Sheridan, tuba
Martin Kennedy, piano
Webster University Community Music School
St. Louis, Missouri
March 13, 2012 7:30 PM


Demondrae Thurman with
The St. Louis Low Brass Collective
Powell Symphony Hall
St. Louis, Missoui
March 14, 2012  7:00 PM
performing Persistence for trombone quartet
and Theme and Variations for trombone and piano




Voices of Change
New Music Ensemble of Dallas

Season Finale featuring special guest composer Claude Baker
Caruth Auditorium
Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas
May 6, 2012
6:30 PM pre-concert forum with Claude Baker & Laurie Shulman
7:30 PM concert
Claude Baker: Elegy for Violin
Martin Kennedy: Four Songs for flute and piano
Claude Baker: Three Fantasy Pieces for viola and percussion
Bohuslav Martinû: Duo #1 for violin and cello
Claude Baker: Tableaux Funebres





Recent Concerts:


Patrick Sheridan, tuba
Martin Kennedy, piano
The Sheldon Concert Hall
St. Louis, Missouri
January 17, 2012


Lara St. John, violin

Martin Kennedy, piano
SOBE ARTS AMERICAN STRING FESTIVAL
SoBe Institute of the Arts
Little Stage Theater
Miami Beach, Florida
December 6, 2011
performing: Foster/Van Brink, Corigliano, Kennedy,
Gershwin, Herskowitz, and Pritsker

Kim Kashkashian, viola
Martin Kennedy, piano
SOBE ARTS AMERICAN STRING FESTIVAL
SoBe Institute of the Arts
Little Stage Theater
Miami Beach, Florida
December 7, 2011

Anastasia Khitruk, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
SOBE ARTS AMERICAN STRING FESTIVAL
SoBe Institute of the Arts
Little Stage Theater
Miami Beach, Florida
December 8, 2011

Matt Haimovitz, violoncello
Kim Kashkashian, viola
Martin Kennedy, piano
SOBE ARTS AMERICAN STRING FESTIVAL
SoBe Institute of the Arts
Little Stage Theater
Miami Beach, Florida
December 10, 2011

Tim Myers, trombone
Martin Kennedy, piano
Unity Evangelical Lutheran Church
St. Louis, Missouri
October 18, 2011
performing Theme and Variations for trombone and piano
and Persistence for trombone quartet

Lara St. John, violin
Teatro Verdi Trieste
Podreone, Italy
October 27, 2011
performing Totentanz (Liszt, arr. Kennedy/St. John)

Lara St. John, violin
Trieste Opera House
Trieste, Italy
October 28 and 29, 2011
performing Totentanz (Liszt, arr. Kennedy/St. John)

Martin Kennedy and Peter Henderson, pianos
Missouri Music Teacher's Association Summer Conference 2011
Winifred Auditorium
Webster University
St. Louis, Missouri
June 11, 2011
premiering Ballistics

Lara St. John, violin
The South Dakota Symphony
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
March 19 and 20, 2011
Trivial Pursuits
(violin and orchestra version)

St. Louis Symphony Community Partnership Program
Erin Schreiber, violin
Morris Jacob, viola
Anne Fagerburg, violoncello
March 28, 2011
Desmond Lee Concert Hall
Washington University in St. Louis
performing Mahler's Piano Quartet in A Minor

Stella Markou, soprano
Martin Kennedy, piano
Danforth University Chamber Music Concert Series
Washington University in St. Louis
April 7, 2011

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Rockefeller University
New York, New York
October 15, 2010
performing Debussy, Beethoven, Kennedy,
Gershwin/Heifitz, Foster/Van Brink, and Ravel

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
October 17, 2010
performing Debussy, Beethoven, Kennedy,
Gershwin/Heifitz, Foster/Van Brink, and Ravel

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts
Richmond Hill, Toronto
October 21, 2010
performing Debussy, Beethoven, Kennedy,
Gershwin/Heifitz, Foster/Van Brink, and Ravel

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Sherbrooke, Quebec
Bishop's University Centennial Theatre
Sherbrooke, Quebec
October 23, 2010
performing Debussy, Beethoven, Kennedy,
Gershwin/Heifitz, Foster/Van Brink, and Ravel

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Queen's College
Grant Hall
Kingston, Ontario
October 24, 2010
performing Debussy, Beethoven, Kennedy,
Gershwin/Heifitz, Foster/Van Brink, and Ravel

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Hillfield Strathallen College
West Hamilton, Ontario
October 29, 2010
performing Debussy, Beethoven, Kennedy,
Gershwin/Heifitz, Foster/Van Brink, and Ravel

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Troy Chromatics
Troy, New York
November 14, 2010
performing Debussy, Beethoven, Kennedy,
Gershwin/Heifitz, Foster/Van Brink, Wieniawski, and Ravel

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
January 14 and 15, 2011
The LIbrary Theater
Birmingham, Alabama
performing Debussy, Beethoven, Kennedy,
Gershwin/Heifitz, Foster/Van Brink, and Ravel

Rebecca Cherian, trombone
Carnegie Mellon University
Kresge Theater
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia
November 28, 2010
performing Theme and Variations for Trombone and Piano

Stella Markou, soprano
Faculty Concert
Vince Varvel, guitar
Touhill Performing Arts Center
Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall
University of Missouri - St. Louis
October 6, 2010
performing My Beloved is Mine

Washington University Symphony Orchestra
Desmond Lee Auditorium
Washington University in St. Louis
October 8, 2010
performing Three Pieces for Orchestra

Erin Schreiber, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
The Sheldon Concert Hall
September 21, 2010
St. Louis, Missouri
performing Beethoven, Debussy, Kennedy, and Brahms

Lara St. John, violin
Maverick Summer Chamber Music Series
Woodstock, New York
August 1, 2010
World Premiere of Variations On Being Alone for solo violin

Katie Collins, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Whim Estate's Greathouse
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
April 9th and 10th, 2010

Rachel Ciraldo, flute
Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra
River Center Theater for the Performing Arts
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
March 18, 2010
performing Flute Concerto

Martin Kennedy, piano
Friends of Music Scholarship Concert
Eliot Unitarian Chapel
St. Louis, Missouri
January 31, 2010
performing Thomas Adès' Five Eliot Landscapes with soprano Stella Markou

Erin Schreiber, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
The Danforth University Center
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
September 3, 2009
performing works of Beethoven, Raff,
Waxman, Ysaÿe, Kennedy, and Franck

Martin Kennedy
Composition Faculty Recital
Washington University in St. Louis
October 10, 2009
Trivial Pursuits for violin and piano (2009)
My Beloved is Mine for soprano and guitar (2007)
Theme and Variations for trombone and piano (2003)
Suite for string quartet (2006)
Piano Concerto (w/ piano reduction) (2008)

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Rockefeller University
The Peggy Rockefeller Concert Series
New York, New York
May 22, 2009

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Windham Chamber Music Festival
Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center
Windham, New York
May 23, 2009

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Community Partnership Concert
"Unofficial Leningrad, 1961"
Desmond Lee Auditorium
Washington University in St. Louis
featuring Orli Shaham, Seth Carlin, Maryse Carlin, Peter Henderson, Martin Kennedy,
Johanna Ballou, Will James, and Henry Claude
March 30, 2009

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
The Barns at Wolf Trap
Vienna, Virginia
March 20, 2009
Beethoven - Sonata No. 3 in Eb Major, Op. 12, No. 3
Schoenberg - Phantasy, Op. 47
Bartók - Second Sonata
Matthew Hindson - Maralinga (World Premiere)
Liszt - Totentanz
Ravel - Tzigane

On-Stage at Powell
“Jazz Influences”
Powell Symphony Hall
St. Louis, Missouri
February 20, 2009
Steven Herring, baritone
Nicolae Bica & Lisa Chong, violin
Shannon Farrell Williams, viola
Alvin McCall, cello
David DeRiso, bass
Martin Kennedy, piano
plus pianists Phil Dunlap and
Adaron “Pops” Jackson from Jazz St. Louis

Members of the Saint Louis Symphony
Holy Family Chapel
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Motherhouse
St. Louis, Missouri

Jennifer Nitchman, flute
Martin Kennedy, piano
Whim Estate's Greathouse
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
January 9-10, 2009

Lara St. John, violin
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
London and Northampton, England
October 14 & 19, 2008
performing Totentanz (Liszt, arr. Kennedy/St. John)

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Toronto 96.3 FM
"Bach and Rock Around the Clock"
September 18, 2008

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Flavin Concert Series
The Pulitzer Contemporary Art Museum
June 18, 2008
St. Louis, Missouri
performing Steve Reich: Four Organs

Molly Morkoski, piano
The Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra
Shink Hahm, conductor
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
May 11, 2008
performing Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Martin Kennedy, piano
175th Anniversary Solo Recital
Second Baptist Church
Clayton, Missouri
April 27, 2008

On-Stage at Powell
Music of Brahms, Kennedy and Bartok
Powell Symphony Hall
St. Louis, Missouri
April 2, 2008
Martin Kennedy, piano
Tod Bowermaster, horn
Diana Haskell, clarinet
Silvian Iticovici, violin

Stephen Gosling, piano
Keys to the Future 
New York 's Only Festival of
Contemporary Solo Piano Music
Greenwich House
New York, New York
March 26, 2008
performing Piano Sonata

Martin Kennedy, piano
Teatro della Rosa
Pontremoli (Tuscany), Italy
March 11, 2008
performing works by J.S. Bach, Alban Berg,
George Gershwin, Martin Kennedy,
Franz Liszt, and Robert Schumann

Musica Reginae
"How Suite it Is!"
Flushing Town Hall
New York, New York
January 28, 2008
World Premiere of Suite for string quartet

Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Algoma Conservatory of Music
Kiwanis Community Theatre Centre
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
January 19, 2008

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Water Concert Series
The Pulitzer Contemporary Art Museum
St. Louis, MO Peter Maxwell Davies - Sea Eagle
Tristan Murail - La Barque mystique
George Crumb - Vox balaenae
October 31, 2007, 7:30pm

Piano Extravaganza
Washington University in St. Louis
Desmond Lee Auditorium
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
October 28, 2007
performing All Hands on Dec for 10 Pianos

Friends of Music Concert
Jennifer Nitchman, flute
Martin Kennedy, piano
Eliot Chapel
St. Louis, Missouri
October 21, 2007
performing Four Songs for flute and piano

Lara St. John, violin
El Paso Symphony Orchestra
Sarah Ioannides, Conductor
October 19th and 20th, 2007

performing Totentanz (Liszt, arr. Kennedy/St. John)