Oboist Kyle Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer, educator and new music specialist. His creative output – extending from a Western classical foundation into gray areas encompassing electro-acoustics, free jazz, post-punk rock, and the noise underground – can be heard on more than 60 recordings from labels including New World, Hat Art, Entr’acte, Not Two, Clean Feed, Another Timbre, 482Music and Sick Room. His ensemble affiliations include sfSound, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Eco Ensemble, Splinter Reeds, the Stockton Symphony, and Quinteto Latino. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2003, he has performed 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.

From 1996 until his westward relocation, he was a fixture in Chicago's experimental music underground; his most significant long-term projects dating from that era include Lozenge, EKG, and Wrack. More recently, key local working groups have included Degradient, Addleds, Shudder, Ghost in the House, mchtnchts, and Pink Mountain. He currently teaches at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis.