Kyle W Brown is a composer based in Brainerd, minnesota.
Kyle W. Brown is a composer and flutist with a passion for new music. As a composer, Kyle’s music explores a variety of styles and instrumentations, but focuses on the intersection of chromaticism and minimalism, electroacoustic music, and works for winds. Collaboration is at the forefront of his compositional process, prioritizing an open dialog with the performing ensembles.
Kyle has collaborated with a number of chamber ensembles such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, American Modern Ensemble, Unheard-of//Ensemble, Civitasolis Wind Quintet, Duo Ferula & Cheng-Maclean Duo, and Polymorphia New Music Ensemble. Passionate about works for winds, Kyle has written for UofSC Symphonic Winds, USF Symphonic Band, Tallahassee Winds, FSU Concert Band, FSU Campus Band, and Chapin High School Symphonic Band. He also has been featured at Carnegie Hall, Nief-Norf Music Festival, Cortona Sessions for New Music, the Mostly Modern Festival, the South Carolina Flute Society’s Fall Festival.
Kyle has earned his B.M. in Composition from the University of South Carolina (USC) where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and ‘with Honors’ from the South Carolina Honors College. He earned his M.M. in Composition from the University of South Florida (USF) and a D.M. in Music Theory & Composition at Florida State University (FSU). Kyle’s primary teachers include Clifton Callender, Fang Man, Paul Reller, John Fitz Rogers, and Baljinder Sekhon.
An active flutist, Kyle has performed with the University of South Carolina Symphonic Winds (Columbia, SC), Carolina Wind Symphony (Columbia, SC), Fanfare Winds (Tampa, FL), USF’s New Music Consortium (Tampa, FL), and Tallahassee Winds (Tallahassee, FL). Currently, Kyle plays principal in the Central Lakes Wind Symphony and piccolo with the Heartland Symphony Orchestra.Kyle is a proud member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Pi Kappa Lambda and currently serves as faculty at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, Minnesota.