Kyle Rotolo

Kyle Peter Rotolo is honored to join the adjunct faculty of Chapman University.  In addition to his work as a music educator, Kyle is a multi-faceted composer for the concert hall and visual media, whose music has been described as “mesmerizing” and possessing “a strong sense of propulsion and transport” (Tobias Fischer, tokafi.com).  He also maintains an active schedule as an orchestrator, arranger, copyist, and assistant for professionals in the field of commercial music.

Swim, the 2019 short film directed by Enrique Unzueta and featuring Kyle’s score was recently screened at the NAACP's Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Festival, a prelude to their 111th National Convention.  His music has been performed on the stages of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France, and the Neue Synagogue in Berlin, Germany.  In May 2017, his chamber opera Marilyn's Room was commissioned by Bloomington, Indiana's New Voices Opera and premiered in the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre.

Kyle has been fortunate to receive a 2018 I.U. - Jacobs School Dean's Prize Commission (Conquering Sun, 2019), an Audience Award from the 2014 American Composers Orchestra’s Underwood Readings, the 2013 Ada Arens Morawetz Memorial Award from the Peabody Institute, and was a finalist in both the BMI Student Composer Awards (2013) and the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (2014, 2015).

Awarded a Doctor of Music from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music where he received a Barbara & David Jacobs Fellowship and served as an adjunct instructor of music composition, Kyle is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society.  He counts among his mentors Kevin Puts, P.Q. Phan, N. Lincoln Hanks, and Larry Groupé.  Kyle has also studied privately with Samuel Adler, Derek Bermel, David Dzubay, & John Gibson.