Kenneth Radnofsky
Lecturer, Saxophone; Director, Saxophone Workshop, BU Tanglewood Institute
Kenneth Radnofsky has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, Jerusalem Symphony with Gisele Ben-Dor and Boston Pops with John Williams. Radnofsky premiered Gunther Schuller’s Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony (composer conducting), and David Amram’s Concerto with the Portland Symphony, under Bruce Hangen. The 100 plus solo works he has commissioned also include Netzer, Trester, Colgrass, Harbison, Martino, Gandolfi, Olivero, Horvit, Fatas, Yannatos, Perker, Jakoulov, Schwartz, Yang and Bell, to name a few. He teaches world-wide and helped establish saxophone programs in Taiwan with Shyen Lee, and in Venezuela with Claudio Dioguardi.
He is Lecturer at Boston University and Director of the BUTI Summer Saxophone Workshop, Professor of Saxophone and Chamber Music at New England Conservatory, President of the Boston Woodwind Society, Founder of World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, a founding board member of Gunther Schuller Society with John Heiss and Charles Peltz, co-founded the Amram Ensemble, and is a Selmer Artist. He studied with Joseph Allard, Jeffrey Lerner and Duncan Hale.
Learn more at KenRadnofsky.com.
