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MY STORY / 2026
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Kendall Ramseur is an award-winning cellist, composer, recording artist, and multidisciplinary artist whose work brings together music, storytelling, faith, and the human experience. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Kendall began playing piano at seven and discovered the cello at ten, eventually developing a musical voice that has carried him across concert halls, film and television, immersive experiences, and large-scale orchestral works.
As Founder of KYOM Productions, Kendall creates original music for concert, film, television, podcasts, and live experiences. His work is rooted in a desire to translate emotion, story, and lived experience into sound, often exploring themes of belonging, healing, freedom, identity, faith, and collective transformation. In 2026, Kendall and acclaimed pianist and composer BLKBOK premiered A Nation Becoming: The Democracy Concerto, a major orchestral work commissioned by PolicyLink. Written for solo cello, solo piano, orchestra, and choir, the three-movement concerto explores the evolving American story through questions of democracy, memory, belonging, justice, and hope. The work received its world premiere on August 28, 2026, before thousands of attendees at PolicyLink’s Equity Summit at National Harbor, Maryland, with the Founders Orchestra under the direction of conductor Jonathan Taylor Rush. Kendall is also the 2026–27 Artist in Context with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary through the Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life & Faith. During the residency, he is composing Songs from the Wilderness, a new cello concerto inspired by the story of Exodus. Through movements titled Encounter, Disorientation, and Divine Liberation, the work examines wilderness as a place of disruption, formation, encounter, and freedom. The project brings together orchestral music, theology, community dialogue, and visual art as part of Kendall’s expanding multidisciplinary practice. His recent work also includes Where Light Rises, a solo release reflecting his continued exploration of hope and beauty through the cello, alongside commissions, performances, and collaborations that move between the concert stage and spaces of cultural dialogue. |
"Music is the language of the heart.” 
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A founding member of the Billboard-charting quartet Sons of Serendip, finalists on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Kendall has performed internationally with major orchestras and at events including the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour, and Expo 2020 Dubai. He has shared the stage with artists including John Legend, Cynthia Erivo, Kristin Chenoweth, and Train, and has performed as principal cellist with the Grammy Awards Orchestra alongside Alicia Keys, John Mayer, Herbie Hancock, Lang Lang, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, and others.
Kendall’s recorded and media work includes his debut cello album Selah, music licensed for television and media, and the original score for the ten-episode Exodus season of the acclaimed podcast Holy Ghost Stories. He later joined the Holy Ghost Stories Live tour, bringing the score into an immersive setting combining music, narrative, and reflection. His work on the Superhumans podcast episode “The Healing Power of Music” received Signal Awards recognition for Most Inspirational Podcast.
In 2024, Kendall was invited to perform at TEDxGrotonHill, where he premiered an original cello work inspired by the theme “Mind + Life.” Created in conversation with the ideas presented throughout the event, the performance became a musical meditation on the relationship between thought, emotion, and lived experience.
Beyond music, Kendall is developing a growing body of visual artwork and multidisciplinary experiences that pair original paintings with orchestral composition and storytelling. Whether through a cello, an orchestra, a canvas, or a cinematic score, his work is connected by a belief that art can help people encounter beauty, wrestle with difficult questions, imagine new possibilities, and recognize the dignity within themselves and one another.
Kendall holds a Master of Music in Cello Performance from Boston University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Kendall’s recorded and media work includes his debut cello album Selah, music licensed for television and media, and the original score for the ten-episode Exodus season of the acclaimed podcast Holy Ghost Stories. He later joined the Holy Ghost Stories Live tour, bringing the score into an immersive setting combining music, narrative, and reflection. His work on the Superhumans podcast episode “The Healing Power of Music” received Signal Awards recognition for Most Inspirational Podcast.
In 2024, Kendall was invited to perform at TEDxGrotonHill, where he premiered an original cello work inspired by the theme “Mind + Life.” Created in conversation with the ideas presented throughout the event, the performance became a musical meditation on the relationship between thought, emotion, and lived experience.
Beyond music, Kendall is developing a growing body of visual artwork and multidisciplinary experiences that pair original paintings with orchestral composition and storytelling. Whether through a cello, an orchestra, a canvas, or a cinematic score, his work is connected by a belief that art can help people encounter beauty, wrestle with difficult questions, imagine new possibilities, and recognize the dignity within themselves and one another.
Kendall holds a Master of Music in Cello Performance from Boston University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
NS Design“I am really honored and excited to be a part of the NS Design family. The craftsmanship put into their instruments is amazing, and I’m excited to add my musical voice to their community of artists.
I chose NS Design because of the freedom their instruments provide, both sonically and physically. As a classically trained cellist, I had always known the cello as an instrument played while seated. As I grew as a recording artist and performer, I began wanting greater freedom of movement and a wider range of sounds. The NS Design cello became a natural fit. I can perform seated, standing, or moving through a space, which opens up entirely new possibilities for expression both live and in the studio.” Kendall performs on a CR Series Electric Cello and is an endorsed NS Design artist. 
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