Music Director & Conductor Kenneth Andrews

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Kenneth Andrews has served as Music Director and Conductor for The Orchestra of Northern New York since its founding in 1988. He has also served as Music Director and Conductor for the Castle Farms Festival Orchestra, Champlain Valley Symphony Orchestra, and many others. He was the former Director of Orchestras at Ohio University and has been conductor for the Bay View Music Festival Conservatory Orchestra, and the Crane Chamber Orchestra. In addition to guest conducting such orchestras as the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Bay View Music Festival Orchestra, The American String Teachers' Association (ASTA) Orchestra, and the Garth Newell Festival, Mr. Andrews is a frequent guest conductor for youth and all-state orchestras in the U.S. and Canada. He has guest conducted the New York All-State Orchestra, was Music Director of the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2000-2008, has been Music Director for the Crane Youth Music Symphony Orchestra since 2006, is on the conducting staff at the Interlochen Summer Arts Academy and was appointed as Interim Conductor for The Crane Symphony Orchestra in June, 2009.

As a flutist, Mr. Andrews performed as Associate Principal Flute with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and has been Principal and Guest Principal with several other orchestras and festivals. He has performed under such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Jean Martinon, Charles Dutoit, and Franz Paul Decker. As a recitalist, soloist with orchestras, chamber musician, competition judge, and clinician, he has performed throughout

the United States, Canada, and Europe and has been featured on public radio and television. Mr. Andrews is a former first-place winner for the lute division of the Pittsburgh International Wind Competition. For the past five summers he has been invited to perform and/or conduct at the Canna International Chamber Music Festival in Italy. He has also appeared several times as a guest soloist or conductor at the Garth Newell Festival in Virginia.

Since the fall of 1986, he has been on the faculty of the Crane School of Music at The State University of New York at Potsdam, where he teaches flute, is Music Director for the Contemporary Music Ensemble, coaches chamber music, and performs with the Potsdam Woodwind Quintet. His awards have included the President's Award for excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors, the State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the New York State United University Professors Excellence Award for Outstanding Professional Performance and Community Service, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Research and Scholarship, and, in May 2008, was awarded the North Country Citation from St. Lawrence University. Mr. Andrews has served on the faculties at Indiana University, Concordia University (Montreal), and Ohio University. He has been Artist-in-Residence at the Bay View Music Festival and a Resident Artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Kenneth Andrews received his B.M. and M.M. degrees with high honors from Indiana University in Bloomington, where he studied with noted flutist James Pellerite and was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate. Conducting teachers included Dr. Karl Ahrendt, Tibor Kozma, and Wolfgang Vacano.