Aaron Clarke

Biography:

Aaron Clarke is a Boston based composer, performer, educator, and administrator.

Active in various musical pursuits, he maintains associations with loadbang, Radius Ensemble, Daniel Sonenberg, and the jazz-rock quartet AHHA, of which he is a founding member. As an educator, he draws from his varied musical background to tailor lessons to each student's pace and needs, be it performance, theoretical comprehension, or composition and songwriting.Clarke is Assistant Director for Longy’s Divergent Studio, a new music summer program, and is also Manager for Academic Operations at Longy, where he is the Accompanying Coordinator. Aaron is currently in planning stages for the premiere of his opera Ambition Countering Ambition, and is working with his group AHHA to release their full-length debut album later this spring, The Event Has Been Cancelled.

Education:

University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine

Bachelors of Music: Music Composition and Minor in political-science

Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Masters of Music: Music Composition