Kyle Sanna

Hailed as a “first rate” and “versatile” musician by The New Yorker, guitarist and composer Kyle Sanna is on the move: performing traditional Irish music as well as jazz and improvised music, composing for ensembles, and producing recordings for other artists.

Kyle Sanna has collaborated with and performed alongside modern virtuosos like Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer, and with some of the greatest living interpreters of the Irish tradition including Martin Hayes and Seamus Egan. His music has been described as “unconventionally beautiful” by WNYC’s New Sounds and Sound Check host John Schaefer and has been performed at venues across the globe: at the Bach House in Eisenach, Germany, Oman’s Royal Opera House, Sydney’s ABC studios, Taipei’s National Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, and many points between.

Kyle Sanna has arranged music for Béla Fleck, Jan Vogler, Anne-Sofie Von Otter, Brooklyn Rider, and for Yo-Yo Ma on two Grammy Award-winning albums. His “ruminative and shape-shifting” (San Francisco Chronicle) work for string quartet, “Sequence for Minor White”, won First Prize in the 2018 Charlotte New Music Festival Composition Competition.

Kyle lives in Brooklyn, NY and is a member of the Seamus Egan Project, Martin Hayes and the Common Ground Ensemble, Kinan Azmeh’s CityBand, Warbelow Range, and a duo with fiddler Dana Lyn.