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Kyle Werner is an NYC-based composer who creates new works for audiences and performers of classical music. He has collaborated with artists such as The Washington Ballet, choreographer Silas Farley, Windscape, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Grand Rapids Symphony, members of Eighth Blackbird, mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, and guitarist Jordan Dodson. His works have been performed at the The Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Guggenheim Works & Process digital season, Colburn School, Hindemith Music Centre, Manhattan School of Music, Midwest Composers’ Symposium, MusicX Festival, Opera on Tap, Palais de Fontainebleau, Society for American Music Annual Conference; the Universities of Cincinnati, Colorado-Boulder, Iowa, and Michigan, as well as Southern Methodist University; Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Tenth Presbyterian Church, Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Marble Collegiate Church; the Yamaha Piano Salon, and Greenwich House Music School. He has also been composer-in-residence at Chamber Music Campania in Varano, Italy. He completed the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Composition at Manhattan School of Music, where he received the Lloyd Gelassen Fellowship Fund Scholarship and the Nicholas Flagello Award; he previously completed a Bachelor of Music in Composition, summa cum laude, at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, in addition to summer study at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. His primary teachers have included Joel Hoffman, Michael Fiday, Susan Botti, and J. Mark Stambaugh.  He is currently Director of the Geneva Conservatory of Music at the Geneva School of Manhattan, where he teaches music theory and composition. He as also member of the faculty at Manhattan School of Music Precollege and previously served as music director of Christ Church Anglican NYC. He lives in Washington Heights with his wife, Laura.