Kyle Dzapo, D.M.

Kyle Dzapo teaches Applied Flute and Music in its Historical Perspective I and II (Medieval through Classical eras). She is a member of Bradley’s International Programs faculty and teaches courses for the Honors and Master of Liberal Studies programs.

Principal flutist of the Peoria Symphony, Dr. Dzapo has performed as soloist in works by Bach, Ciardi, 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.” She has performed recitals in London and Denmark, on live broadcasts for WFMT’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series and Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Sunday Afternoon Live,” and at Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium. In 2010, she was recognized with Bradley University’s highest honor, the Caterpillar Professorship. She has received three additional university awards for teaching and scholarship, including the Samuel Rothberg Professional Excellence Award and the Caterpillar New Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching.

Dr. Dzapo has performed and published extensively on the subject of Danish flutist, composer, and conductor Joachim Andersen including a compact disc recording, Joachim Andersen: Etudes and Salon Music (Naxos, 2010), the book Joachim Andersen: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1999), articles for The Flutist Quarterly, Pan, and the Lexikon der Flöte (ed. Andràs Adorjàn, Laaber, 2009), and new editions of Andersen’s Fünf leichtere Stücke, Op. 56, and Salonstücke, Op. 52, with his original publisher, Zimmermann of Frankfurt. The latter publication won the National Flute Association’s 2010 Newly Published Music Competition. She has given presentations at conventions of the British Flute Society, the German Flute Society, and the National Flute Association and is currently under contract with Oxford University Press for Flute Music in Context: A Guide to the Repertoire. A pre-concert lecturer for the Chicago Symphony, she has also given presentations for the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Dr. Dzapo served as Program Chair for the 2005 National Flute Association convention in San Diego and has held positions as Secretary of the Association, preliminary judge for the Young Artist Competition, and Chair of the Research Committee. She 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.