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Ken Andresen was a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, received his B.S. in Music degree from Hofstra University, and continued with graduate studies at Stony Brook University. As a recorderist, he has recently released his first CD, The Polyphonic Recorder, and as a trombonist he can be heard on a recent jazz CD release, By Arrangement, featuring the Rodd Raffell Big Band. Ken is the creator and publisher of Polyphonic Publications, recorder ensemble editions that are distributed worldwide. A past Director of Education for the American Recorder Society and Music Director of the Recorder Society of Long Island, he has taught at recorder workshops throughout the U.S. and in Europe and was a career educator in instrumental music in the Half Hollow Hills school system in New York. He was the founder and director of The Recorder Orchestra of New York, the first of its kind in the United States, which produced a CD, First Impressions, in 1999 and later formed and directed the Connecticut Recorder Orchestra. He performs extensively throughout the Northeast on recorder and trombone, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Tanglewood Music Center. He has worked with entertainers such as Wayne Newton and Bobby Vinton and was recently performing in the orchestra for the national roadshow of “Annie.” He lives in Colebrook, CT, with his wife Julie and five cats.
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