Kyle Ehrmann

Kyle Ehrmann of Wayne will complete his senior year by December 2003 as a home-schooled student in order to attend college in January 2004. He is a piano student of Ruth Kotik of Wayne and has studied piano since he was eight years old.

Kyle has won numerous competitions, which include the Music Educators Association, New Jersey Federation of Music Clubs, Cecilian Music Club, and the Leschetizky Association of Gifted Young People's Concerts, and most recently, the International Concert Allliance. He is a two-time winner of the Andrew De Grado Piano Competition and performed in the Winners’ Recital at Kean University. During the past seven years, he has performed in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Piano Teachers' Society of America (PTSA) competitions. In addition, Kyle received high honors from the New Jersey Music Teachers Association. Kyle played at master classes on a Young Artist's level sponsored by the Music Educators Association, as well as master classes sponsored by the Pompton Valley Music Teachers' Association. Besides playing in Weill Recital Hall and Kean University, he has performed at the 92nd Street Y, the Donnell Library, Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall and Cami Hall in New York. Because of Kyle’s interest in Jazz studies, he has attended a Jazz Camp at William Paterson University. Kyle plans to attend a music college and major in music performance after he graduates from high school. His hobbies are surfing and snowboarding.

Kyle Ehrmann is a winner in the 2003 Fifth Annual Andrew De Grado Piano Competition in the soloist category with his performance of Feux d’artifice (Fireworks) by Debussy.