Ken Lauber

Ken Lauber (born May 14, 1941) is an American composer, arranger producer, musician, singer and playwright.

Born in New York City in 1941 and raised on Long Island, his first music lessons of note were drum lessons with the legendary drummers Gene Krupa and Cozy Cole when he was thirteen. He continued his studies when he entered The Juilliard School of Music in the extension division when he was still in Junior and Senior High School studying percussion with Morris Goldenberg and Saul Goodman. In 1960 to 1962 he attending two semesters at Ithaca College to further his percussion studies with Warren Benson and then returned to The Juilliard School of Music to study music composition with the composer Vincent Persichetti, piano with Rosina Levine and conducting with Jean Morel. In addition he studied orchestration privately with Marion Evans.