Kyle Dzapo

Biography

Kyle Dzapo is an award-winning professor and scholar who teaches flute students and music history classes in the Department of Music.

Dr. Dzapo has performed solo recitals in London, Denmark, South Korea, France, and at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium as well as on live broadcasts for WFMT’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series and Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Sunday Afternoon Live.” Her solo CD, Joachim Andersen: Etudes and Salon Music, with pianist A. Matthew Mazzoni, is published by Naxos International. Principal flutist of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra for twenty years, she performed as soloist in works by Bach, Ciardi, Ibert, Martin, Mozart, and Nielsen with reviews praising her “elegant” performances, her “full, lovely tone and her expressive, masterful phrasing,” and the way “she executed dazzlingly complex lines with seeming ease.”

Dr. Dzapo is the author of Notes for Flutists: A Guide to the Repertoire, the inaugural volume in the Oxford University Press “Notes for Performers” series for which she serves as Series Editor. She is a pre-concert lecturer for the Chicago Symphony and has given similar presentations for the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Recognized as the leading authority on Danish flutist, composer, and conductor Joachim Andersen, she has published extensively about his life and music including articles for the journals of the American, British, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, and Japanese flute associations and for the Lexikon der Flöte. She also collaborates with Musikverlag Zimmermann, one of Andersen’s original publishers, now affiliated with Schott, to prepare new editions of Andersen’s music for “The Kyle Dzapo Series.” Her new book, Joachim Andersen: Flutist, Conductor, and Composer of More than the Etudes with co-authors András Adorján and William Wilsen, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2025.

Past president of the National Flute Association, she has also served the organization as Program Chair (2005, San Diego), Secretary, and Chair of the Research Committee. From 2013-23, she served as Director of the Bradley University Honors Program.

Bradley University has recognized her work with awards including the Caterpillar, Inc. New Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Samuel Rothberg Professional Excellence Award. In 2010, she was awarded the University’s highest distinction, the Caterpillar Professorship.

Dr. Dzapo earned a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University where she was a student and teaching assistant of Walfrid Kujala. She holds a Master of Music degree with Distinction in Performance from New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music Education degree with High Distinction from the University of Michigan.