Ken Johnson

Ken is a Wisconsin native and an alumni of UW-Whitewater with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Humanities from California State, Dominguez Hills. A music educator for over thirty years, Ken currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he teaches a comprehensive Modern Band and popular music curriculum at 21st Century Public Academy, a charter middle school with Albuquerque Public Schools. He has also worked as an instructor with the South Valley (rock) Band Project which is an after school music program for low-income and under-served students and schools run through the New Mexico Jazz Workshop in cooperation with the Berklee (School of Music) City Music Network. When he’s not teaching, Ken is busy performing, touring, and recording as a saxophonist and horn arranger in the New Mexico and Southwest scene, most notably with The Noms, an emerging Indie rock band out of Albuquerque and as horn section leader with awardwinning New Mexico Spanish artists Darren Cordova y Calor and Dynette Marie.