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'Brilliant energetic rhythmic figures…imaginative sonorities and harmonies that always move, always inflect'. -- American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Composer and pianist John Aylward grew up in the Sonoran Desert, on the border of Arizona and Mexico, a child of an immigrant mother from Germany (herself a World War II refugee) and in circumstances of both tremendous diversity and economic instability. His music processes the impacts of that earlier life, filled with a deep sense of community, rich expressions of converging cultural histories, and the otherworldly landscapes of the desert. His work is influenced by a wide ranging love of literature, from Sartre and Jung to Calvino, Melville and contemporary poets Louise Gluck, Robert Lowell and Dean Young, and like the poets and philosophers who inspire him, his music questions our fundamental personal and worldly relationships.
John is a John S. Guggenheim Foundation fellowship recipient, and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. He has been twice awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has also been awarded residencies at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Arts, and other artist spaces. He is the recipient of commissions from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard and the Koussevitzky Commission at the Library of Congress. Early in his career, he won First Prize from the International Society for Contemporary Music.
John is also an active teacher, scholar and performer, and a co-director of Ecce Arts, a non profit performance art group. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory, Brandeis University, 2008
- M.F.A. in Music Composition, Brandeis University, 2005
- B.M. in Piano Performance, University of Arizona, 2003
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Harvard Musical Association
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Boston, MA
Oct. 24, 2023
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Clark
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Atwood Hall
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February
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2022
New Focus Recordings
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Workshop for new opera
Pine Box Studios
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Florence, MA
Sep. 1, 2021
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Published in Oxford University Press
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2021
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Vol. 101
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Issue #2
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Workshop for New Chamber Opera
AREA Gallery
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Boston, MA
Mar. 12, 2020
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Chamber Music
Good Shepherd Church at Lincoln Center
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New York
Nov. 1, 2019
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2020
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New Focus Recordings / New York, NY
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Workshop for New Chamber Opera
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Razzo Hall
Oct. 25, 2019
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Chamber Music
KM28
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Berlin, Germany
Sep. 11, 2019
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International New Music Forum
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Palace of Fine Arts. Mexico City, Mexico.
Sep. 24, 2019
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Chamber Music
Distler Hall. Tufts University
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Medford, MA
Sep. 24, 2019
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Roslindale Beer Garden
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Roslindale, Massachusetts
Oct. 11, 2019
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Chamber Music
National Taipei University.
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Taipei, Taiwan
Oct. 22, 2019
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