Oboist Kyle to perform

Published April 24, 2024

Oboe soloist and UB music instructor Megan Kyle will perform in concert April 28 at UB.

The concert will take place at 3 p.m. in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall. Kyle will be joined by longtime collaborator Michael McNeill on piano and Buffalo composer Zane Merritt on guitar.

They will perform the following program:

Zane Merritt — Sonata for Oboe in B-flat Major, Op. 57

Megan Kyle — Marozia (Invisible Series XIV)

Patricia Morehead — Lockdown Unravelling

Robert Phillips — What kind of bird are you?

Michael McNeill — Mosaic Music 7

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased through Ticketmaster, at the Center for the Arts box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and at the Slee Hall box office an hour before concert time. UB students with a valid ID receive one complimentary ticket and may pick it up at the box office right before the concert.

A prominent musician in Western New York, Kyle is a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and performs as a substitute with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. She is interested in finding connections between early and recent music, in evoking images and emotions from both genres of music.

As a chamber musician and new music specialist, Kyle also 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 quartet The Evolution of the Arm, and the duo Senso di Voce.

She is also a member of the Geneseo Wind Quintet and performs frequently with the Slee Sinfonietta, the chamber orchestra in residence at UB.

In addition to serving as an adjunct instructor in the UB Department of Music, Kyle teaches oboe and English horn at Houghton College and SUNY Geneseo.