Violinist Nicolas Kendall won First Prize in the 2002 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and four special prizes: the Fergus Prize for an orchestral engagement; the Pennsylvania Prize with the Janet Weis Award, a cash prize and an eleven-concert tour; the Bärenreiter Prize for Violin, and the Rhoda Walker Teagle Prize, which sponsored his New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series this season. Mr. Kendall also debuted in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center and in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum during the 2002-2003 season.

In 1995, Mr. Kendall appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra as winner of their Young Soloist Competition, and the following year he won the Saint Louis Symphony Young Artist Competition. He has also performed as soloist with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra.

As a chamber musician, Nicolas Kendall has played in a quartet performance in Carnegie Hall as part of the 2001 Isaac Stern Chamber Music Seminar, given a concert in the Astral Trio at the Los Angeles Chamber Music Festival, participated as a guest artist on a Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra tour conducted by YCA alumnus Scott Yoo, and participated at the Encore Summer Music Festival in Cleveland and the Marlboro Music Festivals. He is a member of the Dryden String Quartet, which includes his sister Yumi, his cousin Daniel Foster, and violinist Nurit Bar-Josef.

Following a tradition set by his grandfather, John Kendall, who was the first string teacher in the U.S. to pioneer the Suzuki method, Nicolas Kendall is himself an enthusiastic participant in outreach performances, including recitals, masterclasses and workshops on an extensive tour of Japan.

Nicolas Kendall maintains a strong interest in communicating by way of other musical instruments and genres, including performances as a percussionist and and concerts and educational outreach activities in major U.S. cities as a member of Time for Three, which received a touring grant from the Presser Foundation.

Nicolas Kendall studied with Victor Danchenko at The Curtis Institute of Music from 1996 to 2001. His career has been assisted by Astral Artistic Services of Philadelphia, which presented his critically-acclaimed Philadelphia debut recital.

as of 29 Jan 2005