Bill Kendrick

William Kendrick is currently active as a church musician, accompanist, and professional musician.  He has enjoyed a career marked with integrity and diversity. A retired music educator, he served the Perry (Stark Co.) Local Schools for 31 years as a vocal music director, with special concentration in the development of the young voice. Since retirement, Mr. Kendrick has served as a vocal coach at Jackson High School.

In the area of church music, Mr. Kendrick has served as Organist-Choir Director at Zion Lutheran, Trinity Lutheran, and St. Paul’s Episcopal, in Canton. He also held a similar position at Community Christian Church, North Canton. He began organ studies under the tutelage of the late Martin Alexander. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio University, and earned a Master of Music in Organ Performance at Kent State University, studying with the late Richard Warner and John Ferguson.

Mr. Kendrick has earned a respected reputation in the area of accompanying. He currently is on the part-time faculty at the University of Akron as a staff accompanist in the School of Music. In addition to accompanying hundreds of vocalists and instrumentalists during his teaching career, he has also played with the Meadowbrook Big Band, in pit orchestras for many musical theater productions, and has entertained on the  piano for various corporate and civic occasions. William is also accompanist and associate conductor of the Stark Festival Chorale.

Mr. Kendrick is active in the American Guild of Organists, Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and the American Choral Directors Association. He also serves the Ohio Music Educators Association as an adjudicator.