Kendra Harder (she/hers) is a queer composer, arranger & guitarist, and budding feminist musicologist. She uses her work to explore and create, experiment and play. Every new piece is an evolution of who she is, and a glimpse into her neurodiverse inner world. 
​At the present moment, I am off of work to focus on health and healing. Being neurodiverse in a world that is not built to support anyone who is neurodiverse has taken its toll. 

As a part of my healing journey, I will continue to tinker away at my projects, but only in a way that is balanced and that honours my being.

My biography is continued below.
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Photo by Joseph Taylor
​Kendra is a recipient of the Chung-Wai Chow and John Right Art Song Mentorship Program (Canadian Art Song Project), and she has also developed operas through the Fresh Squeezed Opera Digital Vocal Lab (Fresh Squeezed Opera), and the Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes (Musique 3 Femmes).
Kendra has had music commissioned by the Azuline Duo, Footnotes Big Band, Strata Festival of New Music, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, and the Goodchild Grady Duo.  She is thankful to have also had her projects funded through SK Arts, and Canada Council for the Arts. Her music has been performed across Canada, in a few of the States, and has even ventured across the pond to Oostende, Belgium.
Kendra holds a Bachelor of Music (University of Saskatchewan), where she studied guitar with Walter Hofmeister; and she has privately studied composition with other esteemed composers such as Cecilia Livingston, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Alexandra Gardner.

​On a cool, quiet September evening, Kendra spotted her across the library – a book titled “Brave not Perfect.” As a result of that chance encounter, Kendra has been working primarily as a freelance composer out of her home in Saskatoon, SK on Treaty 6 territory.