ARTIST & PERFORMER
As his multifaceted international career unfolds, Grammy and Emmy Awards winning violinist Nick Kendall reimagines and reinvents how a traditional violin virtuoso can transform the music world without boundaries.
Nick is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed, genre-busting string band Time for Three (TF3) – in addition to his solo concert career. In all his endeavors, he is a restless innovator in shaping how modern audiences perceive, appreciate, and enjoy music and music‑making. He co-founded and plays in the artist-‐‑driven East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), and, in 2020, he became Artist in Residence at New York’s Lincoln Center, where he unveiled his Residency event series in summer 2021. Since then he presented more than twenty artists in his Residency events on the iconic Lincoln Center’s Plaza, the Center’s Jaffe Drive, and in the three‑story high glass Atrium of Alice Tully Hall. In fall 2022, Nick joined Joshua Bell and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for their South American tour as the Orchestra’s guest leader.
In his career as a soloist and with TF3 and ECCO, Nick has performed at Carnegie Hall, new David Geffen Hall and many venues across the Lincoln Center campus in New York City, NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Schleswig Holstein and Rheingau Musik Festivals, Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Davies Hall in San Francisco, BBC Proms in London, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Ravinia Festival, Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, Wiener Musikverein, Marlboro Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Sydney Opera House, Hyogo Performing Arts Center outside Osaka, Dvořák Hall in Prague’s Rudolfinum, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Elbphilharmonie, the Lufthansa Technik jumbo hangar in Hamburg Airport, and an array of sports arenas across Belgium, Germany, Denmark and Luxembourg as one of the featured artists on the touring super‑show Night of the Proms.
He has shared the stage with Joshua Bell, Branford Marsalis, Christoph Eschenbach, Joshua Radin, Keith Lockhart, Alisa Weilerstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jake Shimabukuro, Aoife O'Donovan, Marin Alsop, Chris Thile, Xian Zhang, James Gaffigan, Krzysztof Urbański, Stephane Deneve, Chris Brubeck – who composed a jazz-inspired improvised violin concerto for Nick, Swiss pop/soul star Stefanie Heinzmann, the legendary Scottish rock band Simple Minds, the Late Show Band leader Louis Cato and singer-songwriter Danielle Ponder. In 2023, Nick and TF3 appeared in a new entertainment format event JammJam alongside Recording Academy nominees Big Freedia, Tank and the Bangas, Cimafunk, and Ibrahim Maalouf. In Fall 2025 they became the only international artists, appearing in the China Media Group globally televised Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, collaborating with the Chinese pop star Jike Junyi; and on Christmas Day later same year Nick and TF3 were interviewed and played on ABC’s “Good Morning, America!”
Emblematic of Nick’s diverse artistic expressions are special projects that include – in addition to original film scoring and recording new music by living composers – co-writing, producing, and performing on pop albums. Besides co-composing the Land soundtrack and releasing the Grammy winning recording Letters for the Future (Deutsche Grammophon, TF3 and the Philadelphia Orchestra presenting new commissions by Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winning composers Jennifer Higdon and Kevin Puts), Nick also performs on the R&B superstar Summer Walker's hit record “Still Over It” (Interscope, 2021). Ongoing is his work with composer/ DJ Mason Bates and composer/ songwriter/ producer Michael Thurber.
In January 2026 Apple Inc.’s owned label Platoon released “Emily - No Prisoner Be”, newly composed work by Kevin Puts, which unites artistic forces of Nick’s band Time for Three and super-star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. “Emily – No Prisoner Be”, written after Emily Dickinson’s poetry, premiered in Austria at Bregenzer Festspiele and toured through the USA and Europe in such venues as Zellerbach Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, Princeton University, Oslo Opera House, Grafenegg Festival, and Ruhrtriennale in Bochum, Germany.
Nick plays an 1838 G. F. Pressenda violin, on loan from the Marks family.
