"What is not to like about a throaty tenor saxophone with a big aggressive sound, a full voiced soprano saxophone or a hauntingly velvety flute?"
-- Craig W. Hurst on jazzreview.com
A native of Lancaster, Ryan Kauffman is a saxophonist and private teacher in central and eastern Pennsylvania. He currently leads his own jazz trio and quartet, and has performed throughout the Central PA region, including appearances at Bethlehem Musikfest, Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz, Lancaster Jazz Festival and Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival. He has had the privilege of performing with David Liebman, Steve Giordano, Ron Thomas, Tim Warfield, Steve Wilson, Peter Paulsen, the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and the Manhattan Saxophone Ensemble. Ryan also doubles on the flute and clarinet and has filled the reed chair for various regional and Philadelphia-area theaters.
He offers private lessons at teaching studios in Lancaster, at the Westtown School, and is a nine-year faculty member at the Darlington Fine Arts Center in Boothwyn. He has also taught saxophone at West Chester University. Ryan holds music degrees from Eastern Mennonite University and West Chester University, where he earned his masters degree studying with Gunnar Mossblad.
