Ken Schaphorst (born May 24, 1960 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a composer, performer, and educator.
Before moving to Boston in 2001, Schaphorst served as Director of Jazz Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin for ten years. Schaphorst is also a founding member of the Jazz Composers Alliance, a Boston-based non-profit corporation promoting new music in the jazz idiom since 1985.
Schaphorst studied at Swarthmore College, New England Conservatory of Music, and Boston University, where he received the Doctor of... meer