Kenneth T. Kosche is currently Professor of Music at Concordia University Wisconsin (Mequon, WI) where he directs the Concordia Chorale and Kammerchor, serves as director of chapel music, and teaches conducting, choral literature, and composing/arranging in the Masters in Church Music degree program. A native Chicagoan, Kosche earned his B.S. in Music Education and M. S. degrees at the University of Illinois (Champaign, Urbana) and D. M. A. in Choral Conducting from the University of Washington (Seattle). A teacher for over thirty years, he taught first in public schools in Illinois before moving to Seattle for doctoral study. After a year teaching at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, he accepted his present position at CUW in 1978. A parish musician at heart, Kosche has held minister of music positions in Illinois, Washington, and Wisconsin, serving various combinations as organist, choral director, and worship planner. From 1979 through 1988 he directed the Lutheran A Cappella Choir of Milwaukee, relinquishing that role to devote more time to a growing family. His wife Rosemary and he are parents of college age students Thomas and Anne, who are preparing themselves for roles as a Lutheran teacher and missionary respectively. Kosche was a 1990 Fellow in the Melodious Accord Program, studying in New York with Alice Parker, subsequently going back to NY on several occasions for further coaching and study. God has blessed his creative activities with the success of having over 150 compositions for voices, organ, handbells, and instruments published by 15 publishers to date. Choir tours with Kammerchor have taken him to all parts of the US, Canada, Great Britain, Taiwan, and Brazil. He has adjudicated contests, given workshops and reading sessions in several states and in Brazil. He has been invited to conduct the conference choir at the biennial convention of the WACCM in Taipei in June, 2002. As a composer, he believes that melody is the wellspring of composition; that careful attention must be paid to the setting of texts both as to affect and accent; and that children and adults need quality music to sing and play in schools and churches of limited performing resources as well as for those with large choirs, organs, instrumental ensembles and the like. Above all, he is grateful that music he has written and arranged may serve as a vehicle for the viva vox evangelii, the living voice of the Gospel.

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