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

Dr. Dzapo has been recognized with Bradley University’s Samuel Rothberg Professional Excellence Award and the Caterpillar New Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching. 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. Principal flutist of the Peoria Symphony, she 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.” Dr. Dzapo is a pre-concert lecturer for the Chicago Symphony and New York Philharmonic. She served as Program Chair for the 2005 National Flute Association convention in San Diego and previously held positions as Secretary of the Association and Chair of the Research Committee. She has published extensively on the subject of Danish flutist, composer, and conductor Joachim Andersen including the book Joachim Andersen: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1999), articles for The Flutist Quarterly and Pan, and new editions of Andersen’s Fünf leichtere Stücke, Op. 56, and Salonstücke, Op. 52, with his original publisher, Zimmermann of Frankfurt. She has given presentations at conventions of the British Flute Society, the German Flute Society, and the National Flute Association. 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.