Aaron Quinn

Aaron Quinn (Stamford, CT 1986) is a performer/composer living in Brooklyn, New York. As a performer, Aaron has given concerts internationally and has collaborated with a wide range of ensembles, including Realicide, Sunchoke, Liver Quiver, and Team Players and has performed newly composed works with artists such as Wadada Leo Smith, Andrew Cyrille and Miho Hazama.

Notable performance and premiere locations for Aaron’s compositions include The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institute, and The Manhattan School of Music. His work has been released on labels such as Lurker Bias, Triptick Tapes, Mole Tree Records and Illuso Records among others.

Primarily being a self-taught composer, he has sought out private guidance from such luminaries as Michaël Attias, Tim Berne, and Aurora Nealand.

He was selected as one of the composers to take part in the European/American Alliance in Paris for 2025, studying with Julliard professor and former Nadia Boulanger pupil Philip Lasser, Dr. Benjamin C.S. Boyle, and Abbie Betinis.

As an educator, he has been an artist in residence as a performer/composer recently at such schools as Capital University in Columbus, Ohio (NOW Festival), and The Georgetown Day School in Washington DC (Jazz Festival). He teaches privately at the The Kaufman Music Center in New York City.

His recent compositions includes new work for his quartet Sunchoke (David Leon, Walter Stinson, Matt Honor) which combine the harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary of early 2000’s grindcore/hxc/skramz with Afrological improvisatory vessels. A new ASMR influenced lowercase duo with frequent collaborator Ishmael Ali utilizing SP-404s, Pure Data and their respective instruments.

In process works/commissions include a long form chamber ensemble work that utilizes musical and physical gestures in a modular setting for improvisers, a new work for a Pierrot Lunaire ensemble, a string quartet and art song premiering in Paris summer of 2025, a Violin Concerto with Orchestra writen for Devin Copfer premiering in November 2025 in addition to a new work for solo Saxophone for Barbara Mansukhani premiering in the spring of 2026.

“…one of the best and not-talked-about-enough guitarists and composers in Columbus music history…”

-Richard Sanford

“Aaron is one of my favorite composers in the world, a musician who’s had a tremendous impact on my sensibilities and interests over the years.”

-Dan DiPiero

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