Oboist Kyle Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer and New Music specialist. His creative output – extending from conservatory-trained foundations into gray areas encompassing free jazz, post-punk rock and the electronic music underground – can be heard on more than 100 recordings. Three decades of chameleonic gigging have found him performing in settings including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Venice Biennale, 924 Gilman, Berghain, a 12-foot diameter bomb shelter, and dangling 30 feet in the air by a harness from a crane. A member of the Stockton Symphony since 2006, he has also performed as a substitute with the San Francisco Symphony and most of the area’s regional orchestras while remaining active within an international community of improvisers and sound artists. His current chamber music activity prominently includes work with Splinter Reeds, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Quinteto Latino, sfSound, the Ives Collective, and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. Bruckmann earned undergraduate degrees in music and psychology at Rice University, studying oboe with Robert Atherholt, serving as music director of campus radio station KTRU and achieving academic distinction as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He completed his M.M. at the University of Michigan, where he studied oboe performance with Harry Sargous and contemporary improvisation with Ed Sarath. He is now Assistant Professor of Practice and Program Director of Chamber Music at University of the Pacific.