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. Motto: Heart of the new west Area: 712. ... Sacramento – a Spanish- and Portuguese-language word meaning sacrament – is a common toponym in parts of the world where those tongues were or are spoken. ... Regina, Saskatchewan Regina is the major city in the south of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. ... The University of Regina (UofR) is a degree granting institution located in the southeast quadrant of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. ... A pro-cathedral from 1944 until 1973, St Pauls Anglican Cathedral, Regina is a modest parish church building on the outskirts of Reginas central business district. ... Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Area: 1,117. ...

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. The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest conservatory in the United States. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a privately-funded American university in Stanford, California. ... The American Guild of Organists, or AGO, is a national organization of church and concert organists in the USA. It is divided into regions and chapters and publishes a monthly magazine, The American Organist. ... Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge, or simply Louisiana State University (LSU) is a public, coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the main campus of the Louisiana State University System. ... The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is the largest education institution in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. ...

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. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Cipher-block chaining ...

Mr. Kendrick has toured Canada three times with his CSUS Choirs (Vancouver and Montreal) and in July 2004 he merged his CSUS Choral Music Program with the Sacramento Choral Society to complete an international European Tour with performances in Munich, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. In July 2006, with the Sacramento Choral Society, he will lead a group of 215 "Cultural Ambassadors" from Sacramento to China with performances in Beijin, Tianjin, Xi'an, Jinan (Sacramento's Sister City) and on the Great Wall of China. Mr. Kendrick is also the Founder/Conductor of the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra, the Music Director at Sacred Heart Church where he conducts Schola Cantorum and Vox Nova (Men's Chorus) and the past Founder/Artistic Director of the Sacramento Children's Chorus. He is the California statewide representative for Repertoire and Standards for Community Choruses for the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA).