{{short description|American oboist}} {{notability|Biographies|date=March 2012}} {{Expand German|topic=bio |date=April 2026}} {{Infobox musical artist | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people. Non-free and "fair use" images, e.g. promo photos, CD/DVD covers, posters, screen captures, etc., will be deleted - see WP:NONFREE --> | image_size = | name = Kyle Bruckmann | caption = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1971}} | birth_place = | origin = San Francisco, California | instrument = Oboe | genre = Improvisational | occupation = Oboist/Composer | years_active = 1996 - present | label = Porter Records, 482 Music, New World Records | associated_acts = sfSound, Wrack, Stockton Symphony | website = {{URL|http://www.kylebruckmann.com}} }}
'''Kyle Bruckmann''' (born 1971) is an American composer and oboist based in San Francisco, California.
Getting his musical start playing in industrial and hardcore bands,<ref name="Taylor">Taylor, James [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/kyle-bruckmann-purposeful-discontent-kyle-bruckmann-by-james-taylor] Interview in All About Jazz.</ref> Bruckmann then studied oboe with Robert Atherholt at Rice University. He earned his master's degree at the University of Michigan (MM 1996) under Harry Sargous and contemporary improvisor Ed Sarath.<ref name="Djll">Djll, Tom "On Procedural Grounds". Liner note essay. New World Records.</ref>
His musical aesthetic varies widely, from traditional Western classical to free jazz, electronic music and post-punk rock.<ref name="ACF">American Composers Forum. [http://www.composersforum.org/members/directory/kyle-bruckmann "ACF"]. Composer's biography, American Composers Forum,</ref> and he cites Charlemagne Palestine as an influence.<ref name="Taylor"/>
His work has been recorded by the labels Porter Records, 482 Music, and New World Records, among others.
{{As of|April 2022}}, he is the Assistant Professor of Practice in Oboe and Contemporary Music at the University of Pacific Conservatory of Music.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bruckmann |first1=Kyle |title=About Kyle Bruckmann |url=http://kylebruckmann.com/about/ |website=kylebruckmann.com |publisher=Kyle Bruckmann |access-date=22 April 2022}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} *All About Jazz [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/kyle-bruckmann "AAJ Artist Page"]. *Chicago Reader [http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/wrack/Event?oid=5552727 "Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack"]. *Another Timbre [http://www.anothertimbre.com/ekginterview.html "Interview with Kyle Bruckmann & Ernst Karel (EKG)"].
==External links== *{{Official website|http://kylebruckmann.com}} *[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/Kyle%20Bruckmann-MN0000109412#discography Discography on Allmusic.com]
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