AaronAlterComposer Aaron Alter Carlsbad Aaron Alter is a composer from Carlsbad, California. His new music, which he calls his "New Beginning" is an exploration of a new style and energy that defies categorization. A native of Chicago, Aaron Alter's musical background was a product of the rich musical life that he found growing up in the Windy City. Aaron received his Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he studied piano with Frances Larimer and Gui Mombaerts, and composition with Lynden DeYoung and David Noon. He received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Princeton University, where he studied with Milton Babbitt and James K. Randall. Aaron’s new music was first performed in 2015, with the performance of “Homage to Josquin” for two flutes, piano, electric bass and drum set by The New Mexico Performing Arts Society in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Homage to Josquin” received an Honorable Mention in the 2016 American Prize competition for Chamber Music Composition. Works such as "Solar Rays" and "Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry" defy genres and exist in Classical ensemble and Jazz Big Band versions. Both the classical piano trio (piano, violin and ‘cello) and Jazz Big Band versions of “Solar Rays” have received Silver medals at the Global Music Awards. Aaron’s Introspective Blues #1 for Flute and Harp has become his most popular work, with over 16,100 plays on SoundCloud and over 5,200 plays on Jango Internet Radio. Aaron’s music has been featured on the albums “One Minute”, “Two Minutes”, “Gimel” and “Daleth”, by the flutist Iwona Glinka on the Sarton and Phasma Music labels, all of which have won Silver Medals at the Global Music Awards. Aaron has received two commissions in the past two years for choral works with an instrumental ensemble from The New Mexico Performing Arts Society. The first commission, “Together We Create and Sing! (inspired by the music of Franz Joseph Haydn”) was a semi-finalist at the 2018 American Prize competition for Choral Music Composition and received a Silver Medal at the August 2019 Global Music Awards. The latest commission, “Lo Lanu Ha-Shem” (a setting of Psalm 115) received a Silver Medal from the March 2019 Global Music Awards. Aaron is a regular contributor of compositions to the repertoire of the flutist Iwona Glinka, the pianist and Steinway Artist, Susan Merdinger, the pianist Vania Pimentel, The New Mexico Performing Arts Society and Composers Concordance in New York. Aaron also serves as an Executive Board Member of the Carlsbad Friends of the Arts. AaronAlterComposer’s tracks Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem for 'cello and piano by AaronAlterComposer published on 2021-05-06T18:28:39Z Toccata-Variations on a Theme by Charlie Parker, performed by Susan Merdinger, Steinway Artist by AaronAlterComposer published on 2022-12-16T03:16:16Z Fire And Sleet And Candlelight - World Premiere in New York by AaronAlterComposer published on 2022-12-09T20:44:23Z The First Day Of Summer for flute, violin, viola and 'cello by AaronAlterComposer published on 2021-05-06T18:43:36Z Finale from Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem for cello and piano by AaronAlterComposer published on 2022-05-08T16:05:48Z First Time Meeting for Clarinet, Violin, 'Cello and Piano - World Premiere in New York by AaronAlterComposer published on 2021-10-21T20:12:10Z
Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem for 'cello and piano by AaronAlterComposer published on 2021-05-06T18:28:39Z
Toccata-Variations on a Theme by Charlie Parker, performed by Susan Merdinger, Steinway Artist by AaronAlterComposer published on 2022-12-16T03:16:16Z
Fire And Sleet And Candlelight - World Premiere in New York by AaronAlterComposer published on 2022-12-09T20:44:23Z
The First Day Of Summer for flute, violin, viola and 'cello by AaronAlterComposer published on 2021-05-06T18:43:36Z
Finale from Variations on Lo Lanu Ha-Shem for cello and piano by AaronAlterComposer published on 2022-05-08T16:05:48Z
First Time Meeting for Clarinet, Violin, 'Cello and Piano - World Premiere in New York by AaronAlterComposer published on 2021-10-21T20:12:10Z
