Kyle Pompei is a music educator and French horn performer originally from Howard County. He has been teaching privately in Howard County since 2019, and currently has a private horn studio of 15 students. He was the resident horn coach for the Howard County High School Gifted & Talented Orchestras. Previously, he was a brass coach for the Emmanuel Youth Orchestra, as well as a horn intern for the Philharmonia Orchestra, under the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras program. He was also a camp counselor and peer mentor for the Honors Orchestra Program at the Pine Mountain Music Festival in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Kyle was a teaching artist in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College from 2017-2018.
Kyle is currently 4th horn of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, a core member of the Maryland Winds, and also performs with groups including the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, and Piedmont Symphony Orchestra. In 2022, he also performed at Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., for the television show Univisionarios, aired live on Televisa Univision. He played third horn in the American Festival Orchestra China Tour, 2019-2020. He has also performed with the Philip Glass Ensemble in Carnegie Hall, New York City, and Davies Hall, San Francisco, for the World Premiere of Music with Changing Parts: Expanded Edition 2018. Other ensembles with which he has performed include the Golden Gate Symphony, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, Lyric Brass Quintet, Korea Young Dream Orchestra, HopeBox Charity Youth Orchestra, Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra, Hunt Valley Symphony Orchestra, Greenspring Valley Orchestra, and Columbia Orchestra.
Kyle Pompei holds a Master of Music degree in Horn Performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor's Degree in Instrumental Music Education from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he graduated magna cum laude. Kyle was a Stamps Scholar under the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation, and was a Stamps Scholar Student Board Representative for the Madison campus. He also attended the Preparatory Program of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. He has studied under the tutelage of Jonathan Ring, Daniel Grabois, and Larry Williams, among others.