His profound love of chamber music stems from a family of dynamic musicians at The Chamber Music Connection, where he had the opportunity to work with some of the most respected and acclaimed musicians of our time, including members of The Cleveland, Cavani, Emerson, Guarneri, St. Lawrence, and Brentano String Quartets. As the cellist of the Cavani Quartet, Kyle has taught and performed across the country including visiting residencies at University of Michigan, Peabody Conservatory, Montclair State University, University of Iowa, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, Denison University, Kent State University-Stark, East Tennessee State University, Cleveland State University, Penn State-Erie, Ravinia Festival, Maverick Concerts, Chamber Music Connection, among others. As a member of Cavani, Kyle helped organize and co-initiate the Beyond Beethoven Project which featured the complete Beethoven Cycle along with eight new works with a culminating performance in Severance Hall partnering alongside four high school orchestra programs. In conjunction with his fellow Cavani members, Kyle was co-director of Arts Renaissance Tremont (ART), faculty at Encore Chamber Music Festival, Visiting Quartet-in-residence at Cleveland State University and associate faculty at The Chamber Music Connection. His contributions with the quartet are also highlighted in the upcoming book, The Art of Collaboration: Rehearsal Techniques & Teambuilding authored by Annie Fullard with writing partner Dorianne Cotter-Lockard, Ph.D. to be published by Oxford University Press in Fall of 2024.

As a soloist, Kyle has performed at internationally renowned music festivals including The Perlman Music Program and Banff School of the Arts. Kyle’s concerto appearances include performances with the LaCrosse Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Philharmonic, The Chamber Music Connection, National Summer Cello Institute and Caroga Arts Ensemble. He has made guest teaching appearances at Montclair State University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DePaul University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Arizona, among others. Honors and solo prizes include Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Schubert Club Competition, Grand Prize winner of the 2015 Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition, and Honorable Mention in the 2017 Gershwin International Music Competition.

In addition to playing the cello, Kyle has been composing from the age of 10 and has distinguished himself with an original voice, receiving commissions from the Johnstone Fund for New Music, Carpe Diem String Quartet, and the Chamber Music Connection. His compositions have been performed by Calidore Quartet, University of Wisconsin-Madison Symphony Orchestra, National Summer Cello Institute, Caroga Arts Ensemble, and Chamber Music Connection Orchestra.

Kyle’s compositions and arrangements are also regularly featured through his performances as a member of the KASA Quartet, a multi-genre quartet formed at the Caroga Lake Music Festival. Grand Prize winners of the 2017 Coltman Chamber Music Competition, KASA Quartet frequently performs, records and collaborates with artists such as Eddie Barbash, Sawyer Fredericks, WARP Trio, and Miriam Elhajli, among others. KASA has had residencies across the U.S. including with The Chamber Music Connection, Austin Chamber Music Center, Second City Chamber Music, Caroga Arts Collective, Ohio State University, Denison University, and performed at Ravinia Festival, MET Museum, Louis Armstrong Museum, The McKittrick, among others. KASA Quartet was a semi-finalist for the 2022 Concert Artists Guild Competition and released their debut album, Forever Wild Vol. 1 in the summer of 2022. The quartet has garnered over 50,000 listeners across streaming platforms and have toured regularly with Eddie Barbash, Laufey and others.

Kyle’s passion for chamber music and desire to facilitate opportunities for those around him acted as a catalyst for his vision to form an artist-led creative community, resulting in his creation of the Caroga Lake Music Festival in 2012 and the Caroga Arts Collective in 2016. With the help of his family, partner, peers and community, Kyle has grown the organization from a “homemade” music festival of eight musicians in his grandmother’s house to an organization that hosts over fifty events throughout the calendar year, featuring 150+ artists and attracting 10,000+ individuals. It is widely regarded to be the pride and joy of the community and a model for artist-led festivals around the country.

Kyle completed his Masters and Doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Paul J. Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow and a Graduate Quartet-in-Residence Fellow, studying under the renowned pedagogue cellist and Feldenkrais practitioner Uri Vardi. He received his Bachelors degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of the founding Cavani String Quartet cellist Merry Peckham. Outside of music, Kyle enjoys going on adventures with his partner, Hinano Price, Artistic Producer of the Ravinia Festival, and playing basketball in his free time. In the peak of his basketball career, Kyle created and led the CIM Basketball team to become the first music conservatory athletic team to participate in a NCAA Division III Tournament. Although they did not win, they returned to Cleveland and beat the Case Western Football team in a historic championship game, claiming the Case Western Reserve University Intramural Basketball Championship title.