Eric Rombach-Kendall
University of New Mexico

Eric Rombach-Kendall is Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico where he has served as Director of Bands since 1993.  Prior to his appointment at UNM, Mr. Rombach-Kendall held conducting positions at Boston University, Carleton College and taught in the Washington State Public Schools for six years.  Mr. Rombach-Kendall’s bands have received national acclaim through their performances at the College Band Directors National Association National and Southwest Division Conferences, the MENC National Conference, the New Mexico Music Educators Conference, and through recordings with Joseph Alessi and Philip Smith of the New York Philharmonic. 

An advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Rombach-Kendall has commissioned and premiered a number of works for wind ensemble and concert band.  Works he has commissioned have been performed by such prestigious organizations as the New York Philharmonic on Live at Lincoln Center, and the United States Marine Band (The President’s Own).  He has been a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and Canada and has published articles in The Instrumentalist, New Mexico Musician, and Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.  He currently serves as President of the Southwest Division of CBDNA.   Mr. Rombach-Kendall is an alumnus of the University of Michigan where he studied conducting with H. Robert Reynolds, Larry Rachleff and Elizabeth Green