Kenneth Bentley was born in Round Rock, Texas on August 26, 1976. He graduated in the spring of 1999 with a Bachelor’s degree in Orchestral Performance from The University of Texas at Austin. During his summers at UT Austin, he worked for the Walt Disney Company at the theme parks in California, Paris and Tokyo. In the fall of 1999, Kenneth moved from Texas to New York where he completed a Master’s degree in Classical Music from the Manhattan School of Music in 2001. Kenneth joined the Young Blood Brass Band in 2004 and toured America and Europe with Young Blood from 2004-2006 and 2009. Currently, Kenneth resides in New York City where he freelances on Tuba and Electric Bass and plays sousaphone with the SugarTone Brass Band and the Asphalt Orchestra.