| Birth | Born on 1960-01-15 at Philadelphia, Pennslyvania United States |
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| Sex | M |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Profession | Musician |
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 Aaron Jay Kernis (born January 15, 1960) is a highly-honored contemporary composer. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University (under John Adams, Jacob Druckman, Morton Subotnick, and Charles Wuorinen). Notable works include the New Era Dance, his second string quartet musica instrumentalis (which ..
Aaron Jay Kernis's Biography |
| Quote: "One of the things I'm really grateful for about growing up when I did was both this wide ranging exposure and the encouragement of that in high school. I came to New York City at a time when stylistic boundaries were breaking down... The first pieces of David Del Tredici, the emergence of minimalism - in a way my acceptance of everything was already prepared for me by the exposure I had in high school and earlier." More Quotes | | Trivia: Began his musical studies on the violin; at the age of twelve he began teaching himself piano and, in the following year, composition.Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for music for "String Quartet n°2 (musica instrumentalis)" Won a Diapason d'or Award in 1997 for "Best Contemporary Music Disc of the year" ("Symphony No. 2", "Invisible Mosaic III," and "Musica celestis" by Hugh Wolff and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) Graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Manhattan and Yale Schools of Music, working with composers as diverse as John Adams, Charles Wuorinen and Jacob Druckman. In 2002, received the coveted Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for the cello and orchestra version of "Colored Field" Won the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, an NEA grant, a Bearns Prize, a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, and three BMI Student Composer Awards. New Music Advisor to the Minnesota Orchestra since 1998. More Trivia | | Contact Aaron Jay Kernis |
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