Anthony Braxton, David Mott, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Peter Hatch, Tobias Delius, George Lewis, Barry Guy, Sun Ra, Derek Bailey, Malcolm Goldstein, Christian Wolff, Duke Ellington, Jean Derome, Ornette Coleman, John Gilmore, Rene Lussier, Anton Webern, iannis Xenakis, Sonic Youth, Pauline Oliveros, Rolando Alphonso, John Cage, Ben Webster, John Zorn, Herbie Nichols, Ab Baars, Charlie Rouse, Misha Mengelberg, Terry Riley, Peter Brotzman, Alvin Lucier, Han Bennink, Chris Murray, Desmond Decker, Conlon Nancarrow, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Eric Dolphy, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, Trevor Watts, Mats Gustafson, Sidney Bechet, Yoshi Wada, Luciano Berio, Ryo Noda, Nam June Paik, Albert Ayler, Hamid Drake, Michael Moore, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, John Lurie, Paul Rutherford, Talking Heads, Don Drummond, Sonny Rollins, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, and most importantly my peers (thank you all)
Kyle Brenders is a young Canadian composer and saxophonist. His compositions are boundless, containing a broad range of idiomatic allusions. As a saxophonist, Kyle is comfortable in all forms of musical experiences ranging from solo improvised works to large ensemble compositions. His current compositional output explores the interaction of intentionality and surprise, the liminality of notation and improvisation, and the experience of duration.
Kyle has performed with Guillermo Gregorio, The Anthony Braxton Sextet, and Alvin Lucier. Kyle has had pieces performed by the FLUX quartet, The BSC, sfSound and the Windsor and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He has performed in the Vancouver Jazz Festival, the Winnipeg Jazz Festival, the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, the Guelph Jazz Festival, and with NUMUS concerts. Kyle is the artistic director of the AIMToronto Orchestra who have recently released their performance of Anthony Braxton's music during the 2007 Guelph jazz festival. Kyle currently focuses on solo music, trio music with Rob Clutton and Brandon Valdivia and with the Kyle Brenders Large Ensemble. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Kyle's self released solo saxophone album called Flows and Intensities can purchased directly by emailing kbrenders@gmail.com. each album is $20 including shipping anywhere within north america (it will cost a little more to go overseas).
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great to see you're playing so many shows. I would like to come out and hear... any NYC gigs coming up? There's a spot between braxton and brotzman for your cd in the downtown music gallery.
damn, i should have checked this thing sooner. i would have been able to tell him you said hi if i had. i almost said something anyway, but i thought i would look like an american jerk if i just assumed every canadian saxophone player knew each other.
say, do you still have those pictures of klaus and i playing in your living room? i'd love to see them.
Ha ha, I think I was probably changing a diaper, not drinking a mojito, when you posted! myspace.com/burustyle coming soon! Better get April 20th up there man.
Hi Kyle,
If you can, come check us out at Tranzac tomorrow night (Friday the 9th) It's a pretty nice line-up ... see our page for details!
hope to see you there,
Veronica
I used to skip class at Central to take naps in that little alcove by the gym, usually cause I was hungover or still drunk from the night before. True story. Speaking of getting drunk, you should come do that on Thursday with us!
I just uploaded a teaser track entitled "double 12 double 7" from the pre-mastering mix of the forthcoming release with the Christian Munthe & Roger Turner Duo on KNING DISK. The actual CD will be out in march 2007 and will be named "OCHE" (pronounced "ockee"). This particular track was recorded live at Lilla Cafét in Malmö, Sweden, march 23, 2006.
