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Ken Schaphorst
Ken Schaphorst is a composer, performer, and educator currently chairing the Jazz Studies and Improvisation Department at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Before moving to Boston in 2001, Schaphorst served as Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin for ten years. Schaphorst is also a founding member of the Jazz Composers Alliance, a Boston-based non-profit corporation promoting new music in the jazz idiom since 1985. Born in Abington, Pennsylvania on May 24, 1960, Schaphorst has studied at Swarthmore College, New England Conservatory, and Boston University, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts in 1990. His composition teachers have included Thomas Oboe Lee, Gerald Levinson, William Thomas McKinley, and Bernard Rands. Schaphorst has released six recordings as a leader: Ken Schaphorst Big Band: Making Lunch (1989), Ken Schaphorst Big Band: After Blue (1991), Ken Schaphorst Ensemble: When the Moon Jumps (1994), Ken Schaphorst: Over the Rainbow (1997), Ken Schaphorst Big Band: Purple (1999) and Ken Schaphorst: Indigenous Technology (2002).
Album Reviews
- Indigenous Technology by Russell Moon
- Purple by Mark Corroto
- Purple by Jack Bowers
October 06, 2019
New England Conservatory Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Groundbreaking...
May 05, 2015
The New England Conservatory Youth Jazz Orchestra Conducted By Ken...
May 05, 2014
New England Conservatory Prep Presents The NEC Youth Jazz Orchestra...
February 04, 2014
New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Department Presents Jazz And The...
November 26, 2013
New England Conservatory Jazz Studies Department Presents The Music Of...
November 26, 2013
New England Conservatory Prep Presents The NEC Youth Jazz Orchestra...
October 01, 2013
New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies Department Presents The Music...
“Schaphorst's charts preserve the best of the past while looking fearlessly ahead
to the future.” —Boston Phoenix
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Discography
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Lee Konitz
saxophone, alto
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bass, acoustic
Glenn Miller
trombone
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saxophone, alto
Carla Bley
piano
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
woodwind
Bobby McFerrin
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Andrew Hill
piano
Jimmy McGriff
organ, Hammond B3
Fred Hersch
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