{{Short description|American composer}} '''Ken Schaphorst''' (born May 24, 1960 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a composer, performer, and educator.
==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 in 2001.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blumenthal |first=Bob |date=July 20, 2001 |title=FACULTY CHANGES JAZZ UP NEC: [THIRD Edition] |work=The Boston Globe |pages=D.16}}</ref> In addition to composing and arranging, Schaphorst is a trumpet player and flugelhornist.
Schaphorst is also a founding member of the Jazz Composers Alliance,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gonzalez |first=Fernando |date=December 14, 1990 |title=JAZZ COMPOSERS ALLIANCE STAYS FRESH: [THIRD Edition] |work=The Boston Globe |pages=68}}</ref> a Boston-based non-profit corporation promoting new music in the jazz idiom since 1985.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gilbert |first=Andrew |date=September 12, 2010 |title=After 25 years, the band plays on: Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra marks a milestone |work=The Boston Globe |pages=N.22}}</ref> During this period, Schaphorst also co-led the True Colors Big Band with saxophonist Rob Scheps in Boston.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gonzalez |first=Fernando |date=May 18, 1990 |title=NEWPORT JAZZ LINEUP LEANS ON TRIED-AND-TRUE: [THIRD Edition] |work=The Boston Globe |pages=80}}</ref>
Schaphorst studied at Swarthmore College,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Blumenthal |first=Bob |date=February 1, 2002 |title=HE MIXES PLAYING, TEACHING AT NEC: [THIRD Edition] |work=The Boston Globe |pages=C.16}}</ref> 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,<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wissmuller |first=Christian |date=January–February 2017 |title=WHAT'S ON YOUR PLAYLIST? |journal=JAZZed |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=10–11}}</ref>
==Discography== * ''Making Lunch'', Ken Schaphorst Big Band (Accurate Records, AC-4201, 1990)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Morse |first=Steve |date=March 9, 1990 |title=COVERING ALL THE BASES BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS LOOK TO HONOR A WIDE RANGE OF ACTS: [THIRD Edition] |work=The Boston Globe |pages=25}}</ref> * ''After Blue'' (Accurate Records, AC-4202, 1991) * ''When the Moon Jumps'', Ken Schaphorst Ensemble (Accurate Records, AC-4203, 1993)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Berg |first=Chuck |date=December 1994 |title=Ken Schaphorst, When the Moon Jumps |journal=Jazz Times |pages=128}}</ref> * ''Over the Rainbow,'' Schaphorst arranger, producer (artists: Medeski, Martin & Wood, Either/Orchestra, the Charlie Kohlhaase Quintet, Perfumed Scorpion) (Accurate Records, AC-4204, 1997)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vail |first=Mark |date=July 1998 |title=Ken Schaphorst: Over the Rainbow--The Music of Harold Arlen |journal=Keyboard |volume=24 |issue=7 |pages=122}}</ref> * ''Purple'', Ken Schaphorst Big Band (Naxos, 1999)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gale |first=Ezra |date=August 1999 |title=Ken Schaphorst Big Band: Purple |journal=Jazziz |volume=16 |issue=8 |pages=74}}</ref> * ''Premieres 2000'' (Mark Masters, 2001) * ''Indigenous Technology'', Ken Schaphorst, trumpet, Matt Turner, cello, Dane Richeson, percussion (Accurate Records, AC-5049, 2002) * ''How to Say Goodbye,'' Ken Schaphorst Big Band (JCA Recordings, 2017)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Protzman |first=Bob |date=April 2017 |title=How To Say Goodbye |journal=DownBeat |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=60}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}} * Kernfeld, Barry (ed.) (2003) "Schaphorst, Kenneth William" ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'' (2nd rev.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, {{ISBN|1-56159-284-6}}
== External links == *[http://www.kenschaphorst.com Ken Schaphorst website] *[http://necmusic.edu/faculty/ken-schaphorst?lid=8&sid=1 Ken Schaphorst page at NEC] *[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ken-schaphorst-mn0000766211 Ken Schaphorst bio at allmusic.com] *[http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/kenschaphorst?id=4109 Ken Schaphorst page at allaboutjazz.com]
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