Ken Schaphorst

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Ken Schaphorst (born May 24, 1960 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a composer, performer, and educator.

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Career

Schaphorst served as Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin for ten years, before returning to Boston to become Chairman of the Jazz Studies Department at New England Conservatory of Music. [1]

Schaphorst is also a founding member of the Jazz Composers Alliance, [2] a Boston-based non-profit corporation promoting new music in the jazz idiom since 1985. During this period, Schaphorst also co-led the True Colors Big Band in Boston. [3]

Schaphorst studied at Swarthmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, 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 was awarded composition fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988 and 1991, the Wisconsin Arts Board in 1997, Meet the Composer Grants in 1987 and 1997, and was a Music Composition finalist in the Massachusetts Fellowship Program in 1986.

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References

  1. ↑ Blumenthal, Bob (July 20, 2001). "FACULTY CHANGES JAZZ UP NEC: [THIRD Edition]". The Boston Globe . pp. D.16.
  2. ↑ Gonzalez, Fernando (December 14, 1990). "JAZZ COMPOSERS ALLIANCE STAYS FRESH: [THIRD Edition]". The Boston Globe . p. 68.
  3. ↑ Gonzalez, Fernando (May 18, 1990). "NEWPORT JAZZ LINEUP LEANS ON TRIED-AND-TRUE: [THIRD Edition]". The Boston Globe . p. 80.
  4. ↑ Morse, Steve (March 9, 1990). "COVERING ALL THE BASES BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS LOOK TO HONOR A WIDE RANGE OF ACTS: [THIRD Edition]". The Boston Globe . p. 25.
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