Kyle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in Bloomington. He currently lives between Verona, Italy and Beijing, China, where he began teaching jazz at the Beijing Contemporary Music Academy in March of 2016. In the spring of 2015 he founded Turn to Beauty, an international nonprofit organization enriching lives through the creation of aesthetic learning communities.
He studied music performance and education at Berklee College of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Northern Colorado, completing his doctorate in 1995. In 1991 he received the prestigious Fulbright Grant for a year of pedagogical research into new methods of teaching improvisation in Hungary.
For the last 25 years Kyle has worked as a professor of Jazz Studies at universities and conservatories in the USA, Italy, and China. He also travels throughout the world as a solo artist and educator, having performed and taught in the United States, Italy, Canada, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, England, Spain, Romania, Germany, the Ivory Coast, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Lebanon, Taiwan, and China.
Moreno Donadel is an Italian pianist, composer and arranger. He started to study piano and accordion at the age of 6 with Mr. Rovro Mariano. Since the age of 9, he has been playing piano, keyboard and accordion in several bands. From the age of 9 to 13, he won several national and international music awards. He also studied clarinet at Benvenuti Music Institute of Conegliano and studied piano at Corelli Music Institute of Vittorio Veneto with Mr. Pasqualis and Ms. Anna Romano Colonna, at Pollini Musical Conservatory of Padova with Ms. Christine Meyr and graduated from Tartini Musical Conservatory of Trieste and Venezze Musical Conservatory of Rovigo. He also studied Jazz piano at Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Music School of Bassano del Grappa with Mr. Marcello Tonolo, Jazz theory with Mr. Paolo Birro and music ensemble with Mr. Roberto Beggio.
Date: April 30
Time: 22:00 - 1:00
Address: East Shore Live Jazz Cafe, 2/F, 2 Qianhai Nanyanlu (just to the west of the post office on Di'anmenwai Dajie), Xicheng District
西城区地安门外大街前海南沿2号楼2层
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