Megan Kyle performs as a soloist, improviser, chamber musician, and orchestral musician throughout the Western New York region. She tackles standard repertoire and new music with equal enthusiasm, and enjoys making sense and nonsense of unfamiliar sonic experiences as a listener, performer, and teacher. She believes strongly in the importance for developing musicians to cultivate technical fundamentals and creative musical ideas alike, and to experience the reciprocal relationship between the two.
Ms. Kyle regularly performs as a guest musician with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, and has also appeared with the St. Louis Symphony, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony in Miami, among others. She was previously a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
As a chamber musician and new music specialist, Ms. Kyle performs with the Buffalo-based new music ensemble Wooden Cities, serves as a performer for the interdisciplinary arts initiative Null Point, and is a founding member of several chamber music projects in Buffalo, including the oboe/piano/violin/cello quartet The Evolution of the Arm and the voice/oboe duo Senso di Voce.
She teaches oboe and English horn at Houghton College, SUNY Geneseo, and SUNY at Buffalo and performs as a member of the Geneseo Wind Quintet.
More About Me
Megan Kyle, MM, Oboe Performance
Professional Experience
Selected orchestral:
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, substitute oboe and English horn, July 2013 – present
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, substitute oboe and English horn, July 2014 – present
Charleston Symphony Orchestra, substitute second oboe, October 2017 – present
Civic Orchestra of Chicago, regular member, September 2012 – June 2013
Chamber ensembles:
Geneseo Wind Quintet, August 2014 – present
Wooden Cities (new music ensemble), July 2013 – present
Senso di Voce (voice/oboe duo), founding member, Nov. 2015 – present
Null Point (interdisciplinary artist collective), June 2017 – present
The Evolution of the Arm (oboe/piano/violin/cello quartet), founding member, Nov. 2017 – present
MusiCorps Woodwind Quintet of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Sept. 2012 – June 2013
Teaching Positions
SUNY Geneseo, Adjunct Lecturer in Oboe, August 2014 – present
SUNY at Buffalo, Adjunct Professor of Oboe, January 2017 – present
Houghton College, Adjunct Instructor of Oboe, September 2013 – present
Education
MM in oboe performance, DePaul University School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (2013)
BM in oboe performance and BA in English, Oberlin College and Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio (2011)
Oboe Teachers
Eugene Izotov, principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony, Sept. 2011 – June 2013
Robert Walters, English horn of the Cleveland Orchestra, Sept. 2006 – May 2011
Alex Klein, former principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony, Sept. 2006 – May 2010
Louis Rosenblatt, former English horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Sept. 2005 – Aug. 2006
Classes
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MUSC 142: Woodwinds Gen: Oboe
Instruction in flute, clarinet, saxophone, oboe, or bassoon intended for the general student.
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MUSC 152: Woodwinds Perf: Oboe
Instruction in selected woodwind instruments designed for those admitted to the Performance Option-Woodwind.
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MUSC 242: Woodwinds Gen: Oboe
A continuation of MUSC 142.
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MUSC 252: Woodwinds for Perf Opt:Oboe
A continuation of MUSC 152.
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MUSC 342: Woodwinds Gen: Oboe
A continuation of MUSC 242.
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MUSC 352: Woodwinds Perf: Oboe
A continuation of MUSC 252.
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MUSC 359: Junior Recital
Required of all music majors in the music performance option, to be taken in the junior year in preparation for a 30-minute recital of representative works studied, selected in consultation with the studio teacher, demonstrating knowledge of varied musical styles as well as professional standards of technique, musicality, and interpretation.
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MUSC 452: Woodwinds Perf: Oboe
A continuation of MUSC 352.
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MUSC 459: Senior Recital
Required of all music majors in the music performance option, to be taken in the senior year in preparation for a 1-hour recital of representative works studied, selected in consultation with the studio teacher, demonstrating knowledge of varied musical styles as well as professional standards of technique, musicality, and interpretation.