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One of our most important young American voices, Aaron Jay Kernis was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1960. At age 12 he began teaching himself piano, and, in the following year, composition. His teachers have included Theodore Antoniou and Joseph Franklin in Philadelphia; John Adams at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; and Elias Tanenbaum and Charles Wuorinen at the Manhattan School of Music. For graduate work at Yale he studied with Morton Subotnick, Bernard Rands and Jacob Druckman. Mr. Kernis has writen works for a variety of forces, including Air for violin and piano, written for Joshua Bell; a violin/chamber orchestra piece for Pamela Frank and the Minnesota Orchetra; a Double Concerto for Violin, Guitar and Orchestra for Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Sharon Isbin (commissioned by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra) and a second string quartet for the Lark Quartet. Mr. Kernis, one of the most honored young American composers, has received the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize, an NEA Grant, a Bearns Prize, a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, and awards from BMI and ASCAP. In 1993 he was appointed Composer-in-Residence with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Public Radio and the Minnesota Composers Forum.

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