Aaron Jay Kernis

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Aaron Jay Kernis (born January 15, 1960 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an important contemporary composer . He studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as well as at Yale University with John Adams , Jacob Druckman , Morton Subotnick , and Charles Wuorinen .

Life

Kernis began his musical career studying violin and piano . The influence of this first encounter with music is reflected in later compositions, where he often gives particular importance to the string instruments both in the orchestra and as a solo instrument . He began composing at the age of 13, and at 16 he won the first of three BMI Student Composer Awards , a prize for young composers. In the meantime, Kernis is an active and much sought-after composer who works for the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , among others ; he is also employed by the Minnesota Orchestra as a modern music consultant.

He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2011 .

plant

In 1993 he and Nicholas Maw received the Stoeger Prize for his chamber music work . His most important works to date include A. of New Era Dance , his second string quartet musica instrumentalis (for which he 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Music was awarded), Colored Field for English horn and orchestra (which he in 2002 the Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition earned), and his Symphony in Waves .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 1998 Pulitzer Prize
personal data
SURNAME Kernis, Aaron Jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania