Kenneth Tse is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading classical saxophonists. Winner of the New York Artists International Award, he made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1996 and was hailed “a young virtuoso” by the New York Times. He has since soloed across five continents with orchestras and bands including the Des Moines Symphony, US Navy Band and Hong Kong Sinfonietta. In 2024 he was named University of Iowa Distinguished Chair Professor of Saxophone, and he is the first saxophonist to hold concurrent elected presidencies of the North American Saxophone Alliance and the International Saxophone Committee. Tse has released twenty-three CDs, including his Saxophone Concerto Anthology. Over forty works have been dedicated to him, among them a 2025 Lowell Liebermann concerto premiere and arrangements published by Reed Music. He founded the Hong Kong International Saxophone Symposium in 2009.
