Ken Walicki [Valitsky] (1961), an American composer. He was born in Detroit, a Fulbright Scholar in Germany where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Helmut Lachenmann. Now living in New York, his ensemble plays throughout the United States and Europe. He has worked with such diverse artists as the Kronos Quartet, Kathy Acker, Lydia Lunch, Dora Ohrenstein, the Doug Elkins Dance Company, Bermuda Triangle, and the Soldier String Quartet. His own ensemble includes Thomas Chapin on sax and Regina Carter on violin. Ken Walicki is widely recognized and acknowledged for his dramatic, engaging music. He has received grants and commissions from ACF, the NEA, the Jerome Foundation, the Kronos Quartet, ETHEL, the New Century Saxophone Quartet, the Soldier String Quartet, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, and Meet the Composer. He is composer-in-residence for the Divan Consort. As a Fulbright scholar, he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Helmut Lachenmann, and in master classes with Copland, Barber, and William Schumann. Walicki has collaborated with artists from the classical, pop, theater, film, and dance worlds. He was the founder and composer of the Ken Valitsky Ensemble. He was the first composer to have turntables as a regular instrument in a ensemble. Walicki was on the faculty at NYU, and Istanbul Technical University. He is director of composition at Cal State, Fullerton.