Kendra Hawley, President

Elected President: 2024-

Duties:

• Chair meetings
• Contract Administration
• Labor Relations
• First delegate to conferences and conventions
  

Biography

Oboe and English horn soloist Dr. Kendra Hawley has performed internationally as a chamber musician, opera, ballet, theater, and orchestral player. She is currently a core member of the Nu Deco Ensemble, Miami City Ballet, Palm Beach Opera, and Tesserae Collective, a collaborative chamber music organization. She is graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and received her B.M. from Arizona State University, M.M. from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati , a Professional Performance Certificate at Lynn University , and her DMA at Stony Brook University.

Kendra has served as a member and Chairperson of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra Committee and Negotiations Committee, as the delegate for the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra to the Regional Orchestra Players' Association (ROPA), and as a Member at Large on the executive board of ROPA. Through these organizations, she has had the great fortune to learn from the best organizers and activists in the American Federation of Musicians, and she looks forward to building on that education, and sharing the skills. She has been greatly inspired by all of the recent successes of our comrades in other unions, and she is eager to help our South Florida Musicians Association to ride that wave of solidarity for the betterment of the working conditions in our industry.