Kenneth Radnofsky - Saxophone Master Class

Of his 100+ commissions, American composers who have written for Radnofsky include Schuller, Amram, James Yannatos, Michael Gandolfi, Michael Colgrass, Donald Martino, Milton Babbitt, Ezra Sims, Chris Theofanidis, Michael Horvit, John McDonald, Larry Bell, Roger Bourland, Allen Johnson and an innovative commission of Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison for a Sonata, premiered Dec. 3, 1995 by forty-three saxophonists in different locations around the globe in an effort organized by Radnofsky, entitled World-Wide Concurrent Premieres, Inc. (WWCP). Mr. Radnofsky is Founder of WWCP, and has created a network of musicians commissioning today’s finest composers.   Elliott Schwartz, Yang Yong, Christian Yufra, Juan Ruiz, Armand Qualliotine, Jaime Fatas, Pasquale Tassone, Shih-Hui Chen, Andy Vores, Lei Liang, Vicent Plush, Georgy Dmitriev and Jakov Jakoulov have also written for Radnofsky, and all while celebrating over thirty years of teaching, with concerts in Istanbul, Rome, Taipei, Havana, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Mexico City, Montreal, Caracas, Manchester, UK, Beijing, Shanghai, and elsewhere.
2014, '15 included(s) the world-premiere of David Amram's 'Greenwich Village Portraits (saxophone and piano) in NY, and Boston (WWCP), recitals in Shanghai, Bejing, Xian, Tanglewood and Istanbul, residency with the Radnofsky Quartet at University of California San Diego, and performances with Chatauqua and Dearborn Symphonies. He has been a frequent soloist with conductors John Mauceri, John Williams and the Boston Pops in Franz Waxman’s Suite for Saxophone, 'A Place in the Sun'. Concurrent with his performing and teaching, Radnofsky has designed and implemented a saxophone program for Venezuela with saxophone professor Claudio Dioguardi over the last ten years, as well as teaching in Brazil, Israel, China and Turkey.  Radnofsky is committed to outreach on an international scale, nationally and locally; his editorial on such was published in the Christian Science Monitor. Radnofsky has given literally thousands of outreach performances. They include a teaching component and investment in community to which he is deeply committed. He is President of the Boston Woodwind Society, an organization dedicated to fostering the development of talented young woodwind players, succeeding its founder, the late Matthew Ruggiero, and co-founder (with Michael Couper), of RCEditions (woodwind music publishing house). 
Kenneth Radnofsky’s principal teachers were Joseph Allard, Jeffrey Lerner, David Salge, Steven Hoyle, Terry Anderson, and Duncan Hale. He teaches at Boston and New England Conservatories, Longy School of Bard College, Boston University.  He performs on Buffet Gold Plated 400 Series Alto and Tenor Saxophones.