Kyle Ward has extensive experience writing and producing original content across all genres of music, for numerous clients from a full-service recording studio located in Studio City, California.
Kyle is a multi-instrumental performer, writer, producer, teacher, gear freak and most recently, TV show host. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree in Contemporary Writing and Production and has accomplished a lot for his age. Kyle was recently the recipient of a Garden State Film Festival Award in April 2021; Kyle’s Composition, “Barbara’s Theme”, won “Best Score From a Home Grown Feature Film Thriller” for the soon-to-be released full-length movie “Rushed”.
Kyle launched KyleWardProductions just as the pandemic was gripping the world in March 2020 after attending a Chris Lord-Alge seminar in Madrid. In four years, Kyle produced at least two hundred singles for a broad array of artist and genres, often playing every instrument and even helping clients select artwork and register on Spotify. Kyle was also the co-host of a new television series on News 12+ called “Show Us Everything” highlighting ordinary people doing extraordinary things during the pandemic (including his own business).
Kyle has been the lead guitarist for several groups, including Guilty Pleasure, Lisa Bouchelle and the Bleu, The Sam Sims Band and Elk/Ward Duo, and is a long-time member of the WimBash-All Stars, a group of “A” list musicians assembled by Doug Wimbish, the bassist of funk-rock band Living Colour with lead singer Corey Glover and Jeff Levine, Mark Rivera, Paul Pesco, Rocky Bryant, Marc Ribler, Daru Jones, Taz Niederauer, Raghav Mehrotra and many other cool guests who play with the All Stars.
Kyle has taught private guitar lessons for many years and has worked as an instructor at the Lake House Music and Recording Studio in Asbury Park mentoring students of all ages/ability levels including master classes. Additionally, he worked in music production for Two River Picture and for Eventide Audio, a company that makes pedals and plug-ins for a wide variety of instruments. Kyle tested and debugged pedal software and plugins and contributed to social media by posting pictures and videos on Instagram and Facebook promoting or demonstrating different products including appearing/performing in several.
Kyle has produced podcasts (most notably for "Food Lies"), commercials, videos and other picture-based medium including videos for young star Angelina Bella. He played several instruments in as well as produced her recent video "What's Up" which tells the story of a young dancer battling cancer.
Kyle has been fortunate to perform with many extraordinary musicians, including Bobby Bandiera and Matt O’Ree (Bon Jovi), Brian Kirk and the Jirks, Corey Glover and Doug Wimbish (Living Colour), Daru Jones (Jack White Band), Heather Joseph and John McCarthy (Chemical Z), the Holiday Express musicians, Mark Rivera (Billy Joel), Rocky Bryant (Average White Band), Paul Pesco (Madonna; Hall & Oates), Quincy Mumford, Dramarama, Sam Sims, Scott Elk and so many others. Kyle has opened for Quincy Mumford and The Reason Why, Steve Forbert, The Haven, The Wailers and Willie Nile Band.
Kyle has had the privilege of performing at many amazing venues, including twice at NAMM at the Anaheim Convention Center, The Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival, Asbury Hotel, Berkeley Hotel, Ocean Place Resort, Commodore Grill in Nashville, Count Basie Center for the Arts, Six Flags Great Adventure, McLoone’s Supper Club, PNC Bank Arts Center, Stone Pony, Strand Theatre, The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, The Saint and Wonder Bar among many others.
Kyle graduated from Rumson-Fair Haven High School where he received the Performing Arts Society Award as well as the John Philip Sousa Award for Musical Excellence. In the summer of 2014, Kyle was an honoree at the Rockin’ Music Academy of Middletown and was recognized as one of the best guitarists in the history of the Academy. He was welcomed into the Holiday Express family of musicians in November 2014, and was their youngest instrumentalist. He logged close to twenty shows with some of New Jersey’s best musicians before starting at Berklee. He started playing guitar at age eight and taught himself to play drums shortly thereafter. Kyle was the founder and lead guitarist of Ardvark Smile (an award-winning Jersey Shore band). The band won the "Rock-to-the-Top" Contest at the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park after beating out 100 other groups and selling out their headlining show at the venue.
Kyle has participated in many prestigious music programs including Summer programs at the Berklee College of Music, the Grammy Foundation’s Grammy Camp, University of the Arts Summer Jazz Performance Program, NYU Future Music Moguls at the Clive Davis School of Music, The Jazz Arts Program and Rockit at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, School of Rock All Stars, Rockin' Music Academy Band and Summer Programs, Musicians Studio and the RFHRHS Jazz and Percussion Ensembles. He was also a finalist for best under twenty-one instrumentalist at the Asbury Park JAM Awards.