Kyle Kindred - Composer
Kyle Kindred (b. 1978) is currently Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. A native of Arkansas City, Kansas, Dr.Kindred went to Wichita State University where he obtained the undergraduate degree of Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance and Theory/Composition, studying under Walter Mays and Dean Roush. He then moved from his home in Kansas to Texas to attend The University of Texas at Austin for graduate degrees of Masters of Music in Composition under Donald Grantham and then his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition studying under Kevin Putts. Kindred’s compositions have been performed in the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe, having received awards including Best Music at the 2006 Nevada State Marching Championship, a spot in the 2000 National Bandmasters Association’s First Biennial Young Composer Mentor Project, winner of the Claude T. Smith Memorial Composition Contest in 2001, and First Prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs 2001 Victor Herbert(ASCAP) Prize in Composition.
His works have been performed by the US Navy Band, the US 323rd Army Band, the St. Louis Wind Symphony, the University of Michigan Concert Band, and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jack Stamp, at venues such as the 2000 National Bandmasters Association Convention, the 2001 Missouri Music Educators Association Convention, and The House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada also Washburn Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Norman Gamboa and Washburn Wind Ensemble conducted by Kirt Saville. Kindred co-wrote the score for the short animated film “Cough, Cold, and High Fever,” featured at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival and screened and broadcast around the world as part of the Live Earth Concerts for a Climate in Crisis. Kindred has written an essay for GIA’s Composers on Composing for Band, Volume 4, and can be found online at http://www.giamusic.com . Kindred has also had a performance in Japan by TAD Wind Symphony conducted by Tad Suzuki in Summer '08 which was recorded and set to be released on CD May '09
Kindred's works have also been performed at the 2002 International Double Reed Society convention in Banff, Canada, as well as the 2003 World Saxophone Congress. Kindred was one of ten composers commissioned in 2004 by the Oregon Bach Festival Composer Symposium to write new works in honor of George Crumb on his 75th birthday. As a pianist, Kindred’s performances and recordings of new works for solo piano have been heard recently on the radio in Dallas, New York City, and Australia. He has been active as keyboardist for the UT New Music Ensemble, UT Wind Ensemble, the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, Nexus Chamber Orchestra, and the Lonestar Wind Orcehstra of Dallas, as well as writing scores for award-winning Austin-produced plays and films.