Ken Goodenberger has been a prominent member of the musical scene in Phoenix for 20 years. He is a well-rounded musician, who is active as a conductor, choral clinician, voice teacher, and singer. All of his musical endeavors are dedicated to making music of the highest caliber accessible to students, choirs and audiences. As Music Director of Showcase Concerts, Ken directs the Royal Renaissance Singers and OperaTunity. These two groups perform as many as 100 times a year for a wide variety of audiences. Under Ken's direction, The Royal Renaissance Singers recorded their first CD: “Sing a Song of Merry Christmas”. OperaTunity has delighted hundreds of audiences, ranging from elementary schools to featured performances with the Phoenix Symphony. These groups are among the best in the state when working with children and Ken's ability as a teacher and communicator helps this to be true. Ken is a former director of The City of Phoenix Children's Chorus, and a past Director of the Arizona Elementary All State Choir. Mr. Goodenberger currently serves as Director of Music at Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist Church in Sun City West. Ken is even better known to Valley audiences as a singer than as a conductor. In addition to his abundant performances with OperaTunity and the Royal Renaissance Singers, Ken is the featured Soloist with The Grand Salon Orchestra. In 2002 he recorded Ramirez' Misa Criolla with Khenany and the Grammy Award Winning Phoenix Boys Choir. Mr. Goodenberger is an Arizona District winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition for Singers. He has served as Narrator for the Phoenix Symphony on numerous occasions, and has been tenor soloist in their concert versions of Kurt Weill's Street Scene, and Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio. The symphony also collaborated with OperaTunity to produce the staged versions of Help, Help, the Globolinks, and Amahl and the Night Visitors, both featuring Mr. Goodenberger. Ken was Tony in Southwest Shakespeare Company's West Side Story, and Jacob/ Potiphar in Phoenix Theater's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Other musical credits include Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance and Nanki Poo in The Mikado. Ken' s operatic credits include Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, the title role in Gounod's Faust, Cavaradossi in Tosca, and Rodolfo in La Boheme, both by Puccini.
Ken Goodenberger will be performing in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber February 22-24, 2008 .
