| Hear Ken Sing!! "Gloria" from Misa Criolla |
| Hear Ken Sing!! "Nessun Dorma" With Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Chorus |
Ken Goodenberger has been a prominent member of the musical scene in Phoenix for over 30 years.
He is a well-rounded musician, who is active as a conductor, choral clinician, voice teacher, actor and
singer. All of his musical endeavors are dedicated to making music of the highest caliber accessible to
students, choirs and audiences.
Mr. Goodenberger currently serves as Director of Music at Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist
Church in Sun City West, Directs the Shir Ami Choir for Temple Kol Ami High Holidays, and is the Artistic
Director of the West Valley Chorale. Ken is also an experienced Children’s director as the ariZoni
winning Musical Director of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Theater Works, MD of Les Miserables at
Creative Stages Youth Theatre, the former director of The Theater Works’ Youth Works Choir, The City of
Phoenix Children’s Chorus, and a past Director of the Arizona Elementary All State Choir. As the Music
Director for 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 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, Mr. Goodenberger
performs The Ken and Brenda Show at Theater Works, Arizona Broadway Theatre and many other
venues on a regular basis and is also a tenor with the Southwest Palestrina Singers and a regular soloist
with the St. Thomas Aquinas Schola. Ken has been the featured Soloist with The Grand Salon Orchestra,
and in 2008, was featured tenor in Aria ready for an OPERAtunity? with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic,
in addition to being a featured vocalist for the Phoenix Sister Cities Chengdu Earthquake Relief Fund
Benefit at the Orpheum Theatre and featured tenor with the West Valley Symphony. In 2002 he recorded
Ramirez’ Misa Criolla with Khenany and the Grammy Award Winning Phoenix Boys Choir, and is an
Arizona District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition. Ken has been a frequent soloist and
narrator with the Phoenix Symphony, singing as featured tenor in a concert of operatic favorites and also
performing Kurt Weill's Street Scene, Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, and a staged version of
Menotti's Help, Help, the Globolinks! Ken was the featured tenor for the Phoenix Symphony’s first ever
sold out weekend of performances with the magnificently reviewed Broadway Showstoppers. Ken most
recently received rave reviews as the Narrator and the Mysterious Man in Into the Woods and as King
Arthur in Camelot and he was nominated for an ariZoni as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (all at Theater
Works). He was also Zoni nominated as Tony in Southwest Shakespeare Company’s West Side Story.
Other musical credits include Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance, Jacob/ Potiphar in Phoenix Theater’
s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 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 maintains a private voice studio and lives in Glendale with wife Brenda and their nine children. He is
currently in rehearsals to play the leading role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night
Music at Theater Works..
He is a well-rounded musician, who is active as a conductor, choral clinician, voice teacher, actor and
singer. All of his musical endeavors are dedicated to making music of the highest caliber accessible to
students, choirs and audiences.
Mr. Goodenberger currently serves as Director of Music at Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist
Church in Sun City West, Directs the Shir Ami Choir for Temple Kol Ami High Holidays, and is the Artistic
Director of the West Valley Chorale. Ken is also an experienced Children’s director as the ariZoni
winning Musical Director of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Theater Works, MD of Les Miserables at
Creative Stages Youth Theatre, the former director of The Theater Works’ Youth Works Choir, The City of
Phoenix Children’s Chorus, and a past Director of the Arizona Elementary All State Choir. As the Music
Director for 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 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, Mr. Goodenberger
performs The Ken and Brenda Show at Theater Works, Arizona Broadway Theatre and many other
venues on a regular basis and is also a tenor with the Southwest Palestrina Singers and a regular soloist
with the St. Thomas Aquinas Schola. Ken has been the featured Soloist with The Grand Salon Orchestra,
and in 2008, was featured tenor in Aria ready for an OPERAtunity? with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic,
in addition to being a featured vocalist for the Phoenix Sister Cities Chengdu Earthquake Relief Fund
Benefit at the Orpheum Theatre and featured tenor with the West Valley Symphony. In 2002 he recorded
Ramirez’ Misa Criolla with Khenany and the Grammy Award Winning Phoenix Boys Choir, and is an
Arizona District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition. Ken has been a frequent soloist and
narrator with the Phoenix Symphony, singing as featured tenor in a concert of operatic favorites and also
performing Kurt Weill's Street Scene, Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, and a staged version of
Menotti's Help, Help, the Globolinks! Ken was the featured tenor for the Phoenix Symphony’s first ever
sold out weekend of performances with the magnificently reviewed Broadway Showstoppers. Ken most
recently received rave reviews as the Narrator and the Mysterious Man in Into the Woods and as King
Arthur in Camelot and he was nominated for an ariZoni as Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd (all at Theater
Works). He was also Zoni nominated as Tony in Southwest Shakespeare Company’s West Side Story.
Other musical credits include Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance, Jacob/ Potiphar in Phoenix Theater’
s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 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 maintains a private voice studio and lives in Glendale with wife Brenda and their nine children. He is
currently in rehearsals to play the leading role of Fredrik Egerman in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night
Music at Theater Works..
Ken Goodenberger - Bio
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