Christopher Thomas Gendall (born 1980) is a New Zealand composer and lecturer in composition at the University of Auckland.
Born in 1980 in Hamilton Gendall studied composition at Victoria University in Wellington.
[1][2] Gendall studied under Roberto Sierra and Steven Stucky at Cornell University and was awarded his PhD in 2010 with his thesis entitled New Musical Rhythm: Toward a Reductive Analytical Method for Music since 1900.
[4][5] Gendall's composition Suite for String Orchestra was written while he was Composer in Residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta.
[6] In 2010 he was appointed as the Creative New Zealand/Jack C Richards Composer in Residence at the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University.