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GUITARIST

Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer, and producer Kyle Sanna works in a variety of musical idioms and, most often, in the spaces between them. Kyle Sanna has performed with many of today’s virtuosos, including multiple Grammy Award-winning artists Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile, as well as with some of the greatest living interpreters of Irish music including Kevin Burke and Martin Hayes, and with many members of New York’s improvised music scene.

Kyle’s music has been performed at the Bach House in Eisenach, the Sultan of Oman’s Royal Opera House, Sydney’s ABC studios, Carnegie Hall, and points between. He has given guitar workshops at the Montana State Women’s Prison, at an orphanage in Juárez, Mexico, and at numerous universities and festivals from Alaska to Cuba.

GUITARIST

Kyle Sanna is an instrumentalist and creative collaborator with Sarah Alden, Kinan Azmeh’s CityBand, Uri Sharlin’s DogCat Ensemble, Marika Hughes & Bottom Heavy, Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna, Peter Apfelbaum’s Sparkler, Ground Patrol, Matt Kanelos, We the Gleaners, Sky White Tiger, Jihae, and Caitlin Warbelow’s Prankhorn.

COMPOSER

Kyle Sanna composes for both live performance and recorded media. He has received commissions from Beta Collide, Brooklyn Rider, the Knights, flutist Alex Sopp, and singer Danielle Birrittella. Festival acceptances include the International Symposium on Electronic Art (Sydney), the Irish Sound, Science, and Technology Convocation (Dublin), The Oregon Bach Festival, and Art Basel Miami Beach. Kyle participated as both composer and performer in Carnegie Hall’s Porous Borders of Music Workshop with bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer. He is a Meet the Composer grant recipient and was a Finalist in the Turner Classic Movies’ Young Film Composers Competition. His first video work, “LULLABY”, made him a finalist in the Fresh Minds Festival at Texas A&M University.

Kyle Sanna, video and electric piano, Matt Kanelos, piano and organ, Rich Stein, percussion, Marika Hughes, cello, Text from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”, 2013

PRODUCER

Kyle Sanna’s fluency with a variety of music-making tools and styles, from synthesizers to folk and from orchestral scoring to drum programming, and his relationships with musicians and studios in New York City have made Kyle a valuable producer for a wide range of projects. He is currently producing or co-producing albums for Ilusha Tsinadze, Caitlin Warbelow’s Prankhorn, Mathias Künzli, and Sarah Alden.

ARRANGER

Kyle Sanna has arranged for many diverse artists and ensembles including banjo pioneer Béla Fleck with the Colorado and Oregon Symphonies, Germany’s SWR Orchestra, guitarist Kaki King, K-pop star Rain, cellist Jan Vogler and The Knights (for Sony Classical), Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie Von Otter and Brooklyn Rider, Irish fiddler Martin Hayes (NPR’s Performance Today, Kilkenny Arts Festival), and cellist Yo-Yo Ma for a performance on The Colbert Report and for two Grammy Award-winning albums: 2010’s “Songs of Joy and Peace” and 2016’s “Sing Me Home” with the Silk Road Ensemble.