On Thursday, April 9, at 7:30, Kyle Bergler will perform a percussion recital at the Strauss Performing Arts Center on the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus. They will perform works by Chin, Mackey, Maki, Raine, and Wahlund, along with a premiere of a self-composed work. Kyle will be joined by Grace Dixon on flute and Ayden Maher and Ed Staples on percussion. The performance will be livestreamed on the School of Music YouTube channel.

Kyle Bergler (percussion) is a student of Dr. Hannah Weaver at the University of Nebraska - Omaha. As a performer, they have played with a wide variety of ensembles, such as the BGSU Wind Symphony, Percussion Ensemble, Samba Bateria, and Steel Band, the Toledo Choral Society, The UNO Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, and New Music Ensemble, and various ensembles at the Edeta Arts Festival in Spain. Recently they competed in the PASIC Percussion Ensemble Competition, performing Aurel Hollo’s José / before John 5.  As an avid composer, they seek to blend elaborate rhythms and organic, evolving textures, to create moving, oftentimes hypnotic, works. Their music is often inspired by and based around scientific phenomena, usually in the realms of astronomy, geology, and zoology, tying them in thematically with reflections on the human experience. Kyle has had their works premiered across the United States, with notable performances such as the EDME New Music Festival in Eugene, OR, and the Total Solar Eclipse Watch Party in Bowling Green, OH. Kyle received their bachelor’s degree in music composition from Bowling Green State University in 2025.