Edward (Ted) Kuhn

Ted teaches instrumental music and music appreciation at the Arts Industry Academy at Lincoln High School in Yonkers, N.Y. He comes to teaching after a career in commercial music in N.Y.C. as a composer and arranger for television and independent film.

Ted graduated from college back in the early 80's and hung around New York playing music with fellow Yalies, before they became famous. (It tickles him to see pictures of composer David Lang looking so serious - he didn't used to be). Ted was the (ah-hem) concertmaster of the Michael Gordon Philharmonic, which played the very first Bang on a Can Marathon Concert. Old school...

Studies in composition and jazz led to commercial work and a 15 year relationship with David Horowitz, the leading orchestral composer of jingles for a generation. He scored documentaries for Andrew Young and Susan Todd and others that garnered Sundance Awards, an Oscar Nomination, an Emmy.

But neither Oscar nor Emmy would sign a paycheck, so Ted got first a MA in Teaching music and then an MS in Instructional Design and Technology. He started teaching instrumental music, and has been doing so for eight years, often writing and arranging music for his students.

He lives in Ossining with his wife Jane Torrence and their beautiful daughters Elena and Genevieve.