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Upcoming Concerts:


Lara St. John, violin
Maverick Summer Chamber Music Series
August 1, 2010 4pm
Woodstock, NY
World Premiere of Variations On Being Alone for Solo Violin


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


Fall Concert tour with violinist Lara St. John
October 15, 2010 New York, Rockefeller University
October 17, 2010 University of Georgia, Athens
October 21, 2010 Richmond Hill (Toronto)
October 23, 2010 Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec
October 24, 2010 Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario
October 29, 2010 Hillfield Strathallen College, West Hamilton, Ontario
November 14, 2010 Troy Chromatics, Troy, NY
January 14 and 15, 2011 Library Theater, Birmingham, AL
September 29, 2011 University of Toronto



Lara St. John, violin
The South Dakota Symphony
World Premiere of Trivial Pursuits (violin and orchestra version)
March 19, 2011 7:30 pm
March 20, 2011 2:30 pm
Sioux Falls, South Dakota




 

Recent Concerts:

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
Schwantner Chasing Light
Kennedy Flute Concerto
Dvořák
Slavonic Dances
Bernstein Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"
March 18, 2010  7:30pm
River Center Theater for the Performing Arts

 

Friends of Music Scholarship Concert
January 31, 2010  3pm
Eliot Unitarian Chapel
performing
Scriabin's Sonata No. 5 and
Thomas Adès' Five Eliot Landscapes with soprano Stella Markou

 

Erin Schreiber, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
The Danforth Univesrity Center
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
September 3, 2009  8pm
performing works of Beethoven, Raff,
Waxman, Ysa˙e, Kennedy, and Franck


Martin Kennedy
Composition Faculty Recital
Washington University in St. Louis
October 10, 2009  2pm
Trivial Puruits 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
May 22, 2009
Beethoven: Sonata #8
Bartok: Second Rhapsody
Czardas Caprice (Trad. arr. Rechtman)
Sarasate: Zigunerweisen
Ravel: Tzigane
Bizet/Waxman: Carmen Fantasy



Lara St. John, violin
Martin Kennedy, piano
Windham Chamber Music Festival
May 23, 2009
Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center
5379 Main Street, Windham NY
Tickets: $25 General, $20 Seniors, $15 Contributors, $5 Students
Information: 518.263.3868 or www.windhammusic.com
Beethoven: Sonata #8
Bartok: Second Rhapsody
Czardas Caprice (Trad. arr. Rechtman)
Sarasate: Zigunerweisen
Ravel: Tzigane
Bizet/Waxman: Carmen Fantasy


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 8pm



Lara St. John, violin

Martin Kennedy, piano
The Barns at Wolf Trap
Vienna, VA
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”
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
February 20, 2009


Members of the Saint Louis Symphony
Holy Family Chapel
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Motherhouse
6400 Minnesota Avenue
St. Louis, MO



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
Liszt (Arr. Kennedy/St. John) - Totentanz


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
Steve Reich: Four Organs
June 18, 2008
The Pulitzer Contemporary Art Museum

St. Louis, MO


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


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


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


Keys to the Future - New York 's Only Festival
of Contemporary Solo Piano Music
March 26, 2008
Greenwich House
Amy Briggs Dissanayake, David Friend, Stephen Gosling, Joseph Rubenstein, pianists
Piano Sonata (2004)


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!"
Suite for string quartet (WORLD PREMIERE)
January 28, 2008
Flushing Town Hall
New York , NY



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


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


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


Jennifer Nitchman, flute
Martin Kennedy, piano
Four Songs for Flute and Piano
Eliot Chapel
St. Louis, MO
October 21, 2007


Lara St. John, violin
El Paso Symphony Orchestra
Sarah Ioannides, Conductor
Totentanz - Franz Liszt (arr. Kennedy/St. John)
October 19th and 20th, 2007
The Palace Theatre