POTSDAM -- Professor Kenneth B. Andrews of SUNY Potsdam has been selected as one of 16 faculty members recently appointed to a distinguished rank by the State University of New York Board of Trustees.

Distinguished faculty are also members of the SUNY Distinguished Academy, established in March 2012.

“One of the board’s most exceptional honors is to confer the distinguished ranking upon some of our best and brightest faculty,” said Board Chairman H. Carl McCall. “To earn one of the distinguished ranks, SUNY faculty members have shown a steadfast commitment to the students, faculty, and staff at their respective campus and accomplished high achievement in their field.”

Distinguished faculty are chosen based on service to the campus, the SUNY system and the community as a whole.

Service must exceed the work generally considered to be a part of a candidate’s basic professional work and should include service that exceeds that for which professors are normally compensated.

It must also extend over multiple years and must involve the application of intellectual skills drawing from the candidate’s scholarly and research interests to issues of public concern.

Andrews, a faculty member at The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, has attained national and international recognition primarily for his work as founder, conductor and musical director of the Orchestra of Northern New York. The orchestra is a regional, professional symphony orchestra formed in 1988 and based in Potsdam.

ONNY is comprised of musicians from Crane, the northeastern United States, Canada and the Student Apprenticeship Program at Crane.

Andrews has also been a guest conductor with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony, and as music director and guest conductor for professional, college, and youth orchestras and festivals throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.

He has also been featured on public radio and television.

During his tenure at Crane, Andrews has maintained a successful studio, with students receiving numerous achievements including assistantships and fellowships at premiere graduate institutions, as well as winning national competitions.

Andrews students have also attained positions in major orchestras and teaching positions in universities and music education positions.

As a flutist, Andrews performed as associate principal flute with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and has been principal and guest principal with several other orchestras and festivals.

Since the program’s inception in 1963, SUNY has appointed 966 faculty to distinguished ranks. For more information about SUNY’s faculty award program visit www.suny.edu/communications/DistinguishedFaculty.pdf.