Kirk Kadish is a composer, producer, and keyboardist based in Rapid City, South Dakota. From Melvindale, Michigan, he began piano at age 7. He studied at the University of Michigan, where he earned a degree in Music Theory, magna cum laude, and earned a master's degree in Jazz Piano Performance from Towson University.

He served nearly 24 years as a U.S. Army musician, including as a piano instructor at the Armed Forces School of Music and as Sergeant Major with the United States Army Field Band, retiring in 2013.

His catalog includes Drift (CNET Editors' Choice), Still Bill, and Still Here by Kadish, Gagan & Bartlit (Best Jazz CD, New Mexico Music Awards 2016), long-form ambient and freeform improvisational pieces, and the Kadyś project, including the September 2026 Shadow Fall EP. He regularly premieres original jazz in the Black Hills.