A featured composer in the 2014 American Composers Orchestra’s Underwood New Music Readings, Kyle Peter Rotolo (b. 1986) has been called “a very talented young composer with much to look forward to in the future” (Paula Brusky, Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition, Inc.), whose music is “mesmerizing” and possesses “a strong sense of propulsion and transport” (Tobias Fischer, tokafi.com). He is a multi-faceted composer for the concert hall, film, and visual media, who grew up on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River, just across from the City That Never Sleeps.

        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. Conquering Sun for 17 musicians was premiered February 2019 by David Dzubay and the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, a Jacobs School Dean’s Prize commission.  The piece takes inspiration from Diane Tuft’s monograph The Arctic Melt: Images of A Disappearing Landscape (dianetuft.com) and was written with her kind permission.  Kyle's music has been performed on the stages of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, 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 Bloomington’s Buskirk-Chumley Theatre.