Kenneth Radnofsky

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Kenneth A. Radnofsky (born July 31, 1953, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American classical saxophonist. He teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music, the Boston Conservatory, the Longy School of Music, and The Community Music Center of Boston. He specializes in the alto saxophone, but plays the soprano and other sizes as well.

Radnofsky studied with Joseph Allard, Jeffrey Lerner, David Salge, Terry Anderson, and Duncan Hale. He has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and has appeared with many orchestras around the world. He made his New York Philharmonic debut in 1996, under the direction of Kurt Masur, and made his Carnegie Hall debut several years earlier with the New York premiere of Gunther Schuller's Concerto with the National Orchestral Association.

Radnofsky frequently performs new music. He founded World-Wide Concurrent Premieres & Commissioning Fund, Inc. to promote the creation of new works, serving as the organization's Executive Director.[1] The composers he has commissioned for new works include Gunther Schuller, Alan Hovhaness, Yang Yong, David Amram, Michael Colgrass, John McDonald, Armand Qualliotine, Jaime Fatas, Pasquale Tassone, Shih-Hui Chen, Andy Vores, Lei Liang, Jakov Jakoulov, Donald Martino, Elliott Schwartz, Chris Theofanidis, Larry Bell, Donald Martino, Milton Babbitt, Ezra Sims, Roger Bourland, Michael Horvit, Allen Johnson, Vincent Plush, Georgy Dmitriev, and John Harbison.

Among his notable students are Greg Banaszak and Chien-Kwan Lin.

In 2003, he formed the Radnofsky Saxophone Quartet, which performs new works as well as works from the standard repertoire. He has recorded for the Teldec, Boston Records, New World, Mode, Albany-Troy, and Philips labels.