Seasons and Cycles
Seasons and Cycles is a multimedia concert experience featuring saxophone soloist Kyle Jones and composer Paul Berlinsky. The duo crafted this special concert presentation specifically to be experienced in planetariums, utilizing their unique acoustics and visual capabilities.
The show features music by living composers from around the country, with themes of how we connect with nature and the cyclical elements of traversing the human experience.
About
Dr. Kyle Jones (he/him) enjoys a multi-hyphenate career as a saxophonist, educator, scholar, and arts administrator. An advocate for new music, Kyle has commissioned and premiered works by composers including Anthony R. Green, Gabriela Ortiz, Spencer Arias, Evan Williams, Tyson Gholston Davis, and Peter Dayton. As a clinician, Kyle has been a guest artist at institutions including Peabody Conservatory, Columbus State University, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the University of Kansas. He serves as Assistant Professor of Music Business at the University of Memphis. In addition to his performing activities, Kyle serves on the College Music Society Music Industry Council, is an Educational Ambassador for the Mechanical Licensing Collective, Grant Writer for KC VITAs, and is Executive Director for Appalachia Winds. He has been the recipient of over 27 grants as both an individual artist and collaborator. Kyle is a D’Addario Reserve Clinician and Rovner Ambassador.
Kyle Jones
Kansas City-based composer and performer Paul Berlinsky crafts music that is inspired by folklore, dreams, the natural world, and our sense of time. Praised as both "dark and satisfying to listen to" (Sound Currents, KCUR) and "beautiful, mysterious and eerie," his compositions span solo, chamber, and large ensemble works.
Berlinsky's compositions have been performed and recorded by a wide array of musicians and ensembles across the country, from the JACK Quartet, Hub New Music, and Transient Canvas, to soloists like flutist Gözde Çakir Ramsey and saxophonist Kyle Jones. His work has also been featured at festivals such as Oh My Ears Festival, New Music on the Point, and New Music on the Bayou.
An active community member and new music advocate, for the past three years Berlinsky has served as the board president of Kansas City’s premier new music ensemble, newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Under Berlinsky’s leadership, the ensemble has grown in audience reach and the ensemble's eclectic programing has gained local and national recognition.
Paul Berlinsky
“The inestimable saxophonist Kyle Jones defies boundaries... ”
“[Paul’s] music is dark, and satisfying to listen to.”
Take a listen
Too Deep for Words: the opening work on our show at the Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium in Kansas City.
Still Point: composed by Berlinsky, this section exemplifies Jones’s virtuosic playing, while at the same time exploring deeper human experiences of growth and change. Inspired by the poetry of Margaret Atwood about the winter solstice.
Currently booking shows for summer 2026.
Contact Paul for all inquiries at music@paulberlinsky.com