About

Composer, performer, installation-builder, and administrator, Jenna Lyle has worked with various ensembles and specialized in the performance of works by and with living artists. She has presented her own works as well as those of her colleagues throughout the U.S. and abroad, with commissions by MATA Festival, Popebama, Ensemble Dal Niente, Distractfold, Ensemble Adapter, Riot Ensemble, Spektral Quartet, and the Chicago Composers Orchestra, among others. Her work has been presented at MATA, Nief-Norf, University of Tennessee Contemporary Music Festival, the International Summer Courses at Darmstadt, Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music in Australia, Qubit Space NY, Kaneko Omaha, Resonant Bodies Festival, The Forge (Camden, London), and Radialsystem Berlin.

Taking on long-term collaborations drawing upon her background in theater and vocal performance, Lyle focuses on relationship dynamics, tactility, and bodies in a state of listening and critical response. Recent projects include a one-woman adaptation of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, a solo work for sonic fabric garment and electronics called Louise, and a large-scale multi-ensemble piece for the combined forces of Chicago's Ensemble Dal Niente, Berlin's Ensemble Adapter, and Manchester's Distractfold Ensemble.

Lyle is also a Co-Artistic Director of performance ensemble Mocrep and a co-founder of Parlour Tapes+, a New Music cassette tape label and media/performance collective based in Chicago. She holds degrees in composition from Northwestern University (DMA), Cleveland State University (MM), and Birmingham-Southern College (BM). Lyle lectures and tours periodically while curating and coordinating programming at The Arts Club of Chicago as Programs Director.