Ray Knehnetsky

I began my music career studying at the Wilmington (Delaware) Music School and the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston. I moved to Paris, France in the early 1970’s where I was writing, arranging, performing, and recording. During the 70’s and 80’s, I worked for such artists as Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Tina Turner, George Chakiris, Lionel Hampton, Herbie Hancock, Tom Scott, Barbara Eden, Bridget Bardot and many others.

I have also worked on feature films and TV including: King of the Mountain, Joysticks, Winds of Change, Hong Kong 97, Miami Vice, and MacGyver. I collaborated with Keith Carradine to write the title song for the film Out of the Cold. For the past 25 years, I have been working with Frankie Avalon as his music director and conductor, performing throughout the United States. Throughout this time, I studied for my Masters in Theology and Director of Parish Music at Concordia University in Irvine, California. I then came to Our Savior to serve as the worship director and serve in the school as the choir teacher.

In June of 2016 I was asked to have some members of the OSNAS high school choir perform at Carnegie Hall for the Reformation tribute “500 Voices for 500 Years.”