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	Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Aaron Jay Kernis, one of the youngest composers ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, (b.
		Kernis began his musical studies on the violin; at age 12 he began teaching himself piano, and, in the following year, composition.
		Kernis received national acclaim for his first orchestral work, dream of the morning sky, premiered by the New York Philharmonic at the 1983 Horizons Festival.
	www.cabrillomusic.org /2006/Aaron-Kay-Kernis.html (253 words)

	classical music - andante - aaron jay kernis wins $200,000 grawemeyer award
		American composer Aaron Jay Kernis has already won a Pulitzer in 1998, for his String Quartet No. 2 (musica instrumentalis) — as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize; the H.
		Kernis came of age at a point (the late 1970s and early 1980s) when the classical music establishment in the United States was breaking free once and for all from the hegemony of European-style academic modernism.
		Kernis' most recent venture in that world is Color Wheel, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra for the opening next month of its new home at the Kimmel Center.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=14834 (1031 words)

	Aaron Jay Kernis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aaron Jay Kernis (born January 15, 1960) is one of the most highly-honored contemporary composers.
		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).
		Kernis is an active composer in high demand by such groups as the New York Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony; he currently also serves as New Music Advisor for the Minnesota Orchestra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis (254 words)

	Aaron Jay Kernis
		Kernis helps to usher in the next century with a momentous choral symphony for the Millennium, commissioned by the Disney Company.
		Aaron Kernis was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1960.
		Composer Aaron Jay Kernis returns to the Festival for the West Coast Premiere of Lament and Prayer, featuring concertmaster Yumi Hwang as soloist on violin, at the Grand Finale Orchestra Concerts at Mission San Juan Bautista, Sunday, August 15 at 4 p.m.
	www.infopoint.com /fun/music/cabrillo.old/bios/kernis.html (260 words)

	Making Time - with Don Mager
		As its string textures unfold we feel that Kernis is evoking the Mahlerian Adagio, the vast essay in aching sadness, climaxing at some mid-point of excruciating dissonance, only to achieve a kind of transcendent or mystical resignation.
		Kernis compels our listening minds to confront bleakly but unflinchingly the horrors of one of our civilization's determining recent historical moments--shorn of hype and simplistic morality play and patriotism.
		Idiomatically, Kernis is well inside the symphonic tradition of the twentieth century; he breaks no syntactic, structural, timbreal nor harmonic grounds, even somewhat conservative in approach; but inside his chosen sound universe, he thinks fresh musical ideas and communicates them consummately in a work of only 27 minutes.
	www.eclectica.org /v1n11/making_time.html (943 words)

	All Things Strings: Master of Early Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Kernis’ establishment credentials are impeccable, and his stature was confirmed last year when he won the Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 2, musica instrumentalis.
		Kernis was born in Philadelphia in 1960, and began his musical life—briefly—as a violinist.
		Kernis’ first big break came in 1983, when Druckman selected an orchestral piece, Dream of the Morning Sky, to be given a public reading by Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic as part of the orchestra’s first Horizons Festival.
	www.stringsmagazine.com /issues/strings79/CoverStory.shtml (2336 words)

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		Aaron Jay Kernis, one of the nation's most gifted young composers, begins his third year as The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's composer-in-residence with two of his compositions receiving premieres on the SPCO's 1995-96 subscription season.
		Described as a composer of engaging wit and expressive lyricism, Kernis first became known to Twin Cities audiences under the leadership of SPCO Creative Chair John Adams in 1988, when the SPCO commissioned Kernis to compose a work for chamber orchestra.
		Kernis continued his musical studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Yale School of Music and the American Academy in Rome, working with composers as diverse as John Adams, Charles Wuorinen, Jacob Druckman and Harrison Birtwhistle.
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /programs/spco/docs/aaron_kernis.htm (504 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Disney Commissions at the New York Philharmonic
		Kernis said, might address his concerns about the future, since, with Disney's visibility, it might draw attention not just to himself, but to all new classical music.
		Kernis didn't care for that, so (with no complaint from Disney) he evolved his own scenario, a search for hope and light amid the horrors of our century.
		Kernis ("Simple Songs," for instance, which had its premiere in 1995) have the same eager sunlit harmony that's in his Disney piece, "Garden of Light." Mr.
	www.gregsandow.com /disney.htm (1137 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Composer Aaron Jay Kernis, one of the youngest composers ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, has been appointed to the composition faculty of the Yale School of Music, effective this fall.
		Aaron Jay Kernis has become among the most esteemed musical figures of his generation.
		Aaron Jay Kernis was born in Philadelphia and began his musical studies on the violin; at age 12 he began teaching himself piano, and, in the following year, composition.
	www.yale.edu /schmus/concerts/News/03.09.18.kernis.html (204 words)

	Composer Kernis makes Disney-inspired piece his own
		Aaron Jay Kernis still beamed from the glow of his Pulitzer Prize in 1998 when Michael Eisner called with an idea.
		Kernis also diluted some of the more pop elements and layered the music with color while infusing it with hope and promise.
		Kernis, who won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1998 for his String Quartet No. 2, is realistic about the future of "Garden of Light"; few orchestras are likely to dedicate the money to mount it.
	www.mattpeiken.com /Journalism/Classical/kernis.htm (579 words)

	Composer Aaron Jay Kernis to visit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The music of Aaron Jay Kernis, whose first orchestral work was performed by the New York Philharmonic, will be featured in a performance by the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players Saturday, Nov. 9, at 8:15 p.m.
		Kernis' work, which has been called "exuberant" by The New York Times, has propelled him to a place on orchestra, chamber and recital programs throughout the United States and internationally.
		Kernis' Cornell appearance is made possible by a grant from Meet the Composer, whose funding is provided with support from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/11.7.96/Kernis.html (477 words)

	Aaron J. Kernis
		Each work of Kernis bears the unmistakable stamp of a wildly fertile imagination forged out of the wide-ranging musical languages of the 1980s and 1990s.
		Kernis helps usher in the next century with a momentous choral symphony for the Millennium commissioned by Disney.
		Kernis now has an exclusive recording contract, has released his Symphony in Waves, with Gerard Schwarz and the New York Chamber Symphony; String Quartet No. 1, performed by the Lark Quartet; New Era Dance, with the Baltimore Symphony, and Colored Field and Still Movement with Hymn with the premiering performers.
	www.uc.edu /ccm/musicx/Bios/kernis.html (569 words)

	Classical Net Review - Kernis - Chamber Works
		Kernis looks deeply into his material and sees that sleep is death's brother, and the music's innocence is tempered by the realization - although it is not made explicit - of darker colors and more existential thoughts.
		Kernis leaps into the fray with both feet, composing music that is at times fiery, at times tender, but never far from nose-thumbing mockery.
		Kernis dedicated it to his wife, who is the pianist on this recording.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/p/phx00142a.html (488 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Winning Composer -- April 22, 1998
		Kernis, a lot of audiences seem to be afraid of new music.
		AARON JAY KERNIS: Well, it is, and there was a lot of fearsome music in this century, a lot of very challenging stuff.
		AARON JAY KERNIS: It is. And I feel I very much have to communicate.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june98/kernis_4-22.html (940 words)

	Aaron Jay Kernis
		Kernis first came to national attention in 1983 with the acclaimed premiere of his first orchestral work, Dream of the Morning Sky, by the New York Philharmonic at its Horizons Festival.
		Kernis received the coveted Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition (2002) for the cello and orchestra version of Colored Field, the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 2 ("musica instrumentalis"), and Grammy Award nominations for both Air and Second Symphony.
		Kernis' music is published by Associated Music Publishers, and since 2001 by AJK Music for which Boosey & Hawkes acts as administrating publisher.
	www.eroica.com /phoenix/jdt160-kernis.html (446 words)

	1998 Pulitzer Prizes - PRIZE IN MUSIC, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Every composition by Aaron Jay Kernis bears the stamp of his emotional directness, multilayered response to poetic imagery, and love of fresh, bright vocal and instrumental textures.
		A highlight of Kernis' 1997-98 season is the premiere of his String Quartet No.2 with the Lark Quartet, which also commissioned and premiered his first work in the genre.
		Aaron Jay Kernis was born in Philadelphia on 15 January 1960.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/1998/music/bio (436 words)

	Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		January 15, 1960, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), one of the youngest composers ever to be awarded the Grawemeyer Award, the Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy nomination, is among the most esteemed musical figures of his generation.
		Kernis helped usher in the new century with his momentous choral symphony for the Millennium — Garden of Light, commissioned by Disney.
		Kernis' music is published by Hendon Music/Boosey and Hawkes, and by Associated Music Publishers.
	www.cabrillomusic.org.cob-web.org:8888 /festival/aaron-jay-kernis-2005.html (319 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Aaron Jay Kernis Extends Contract as Minnesota Orchestra's New Music Advisor
		Composer Aaron Jay Kernis has signed a three-year contract with the Minnesota Orchestra, extending his role as new music advisor through the 2008-09 season.
		Kernis has collaborated with the Minnesota Orchestra since 1992 and was named new music advisor in 1998.
		Born in Philadelphia in 1960, Kernis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and the Grawemeyer Award in 2002.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/5503.html (405 words)

	Grawemeyer Award- News and Updates: Nov. 27, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Kernis won the $200,000 prize for "Colored Field," a concerto written for cello and orchestra and premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra in 2000.
		Kernis has been commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra to write a piece for the opening of Philadelphia's new performing arts center.
		A prodigy who began teaching himself piano at 12 and composition at 13, Kernis has studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan and Yale schools of music.
	www.louisville.edu /ur/onpi/grawemeyer/news-updates/music01.htm (406 words)

	Aaron Jay Kernis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Aaron Jay Kernis, one of the youngest composers ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, has become among the most esteemed musical figures of his generation.
		A version of Colored Field for cello and orchestra featuring Truls Mørk and a song cycle, Valentines, for Renée Fleming were both premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra in April 2000.
		Aaron Jay Kernis was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1960.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/kernis/bio.html (315 words)

	Phoenix USA Presents "Aaron Jay Kernis SECOND SYMPHONY/MUSICA CELESTIS".
		Kernis describes an overarching narrative structure to the three-movement work, centered on a metaphor of humanity facing the brutalizing machine: "The work is very linear, with the long line put forward in three different contexts in each movement.
		In the first, the line is set against an unyielding mechanical, rhythmic profile, giving the sense of a wave threatening to overtake the melody.
		In the tradition of Samuel Barber's similarly extracted Adagio for Strings, Musica Celestis is an arrangement of that Quartet movement for string orchestra (with double bass added), completed in 1991.
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/Detail.CFM?Master__Catnumber=PHCD160 (243 words)

	Grawemeyer Award- Music Composition Current Winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		One of America's most honored young composers, Aaron Jay Kernis, has won the world's top international music composition prize, the 2002 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
		Aaron Jay Kernis's evolution from self-taught child pianist to one of America's most honored composers has been quick and dramatic.
		Kernis began his musical studies on the violin.
	www.grawemeyer.org /music/previous/02.htm (432 words)

	Amazon.com: Aaron Jay Kernis - Colored Field Â· Musica Celestis Â· Air / Truls MÃ¸rk Â· Minnesota Orchestra ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I had a chance to hear the debut of this piece when Kernis was Artist in Residence and the audience's reaction at the end of the piece was indicative of the wonder of this music.
		I would think the fact Kernis is the "New Music Director" of the orchestra gives added authority to this performance.
		Hopefully, this will allow Kernis to focus on his next masterpiece, which I will greatly look forward to hearing it after it is released.
	www.amazon.com /Aaron-Jay-Kernis-Minnesota-Orchestra/dp/B00005A9NH (1375 words)

	PhilipGlass.com: Recordings: The American Sound
		Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Irving Fine were all influenced by American popular music, especially jazz, and helped to create a sound in their art music that was uniquely American.
		They were indebted to George Gershwin, their predecessor, who was the first to straddle the two worlds of popular and classical music in a way that made Europeans sit up and listen to American composers.
		Aaron Jay Kernis and Phillip Glass represent such composers.
	www.philipglass.com /html/recordings/the-american-sound.html (994 words)

	Aaron Jay Kernis - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Aaron Jay Kernis: Air Composed by Aaron Jay Kernis.
		Aaron Jay Kernis: Second Symphony, Musica Celestis, Invisible Mosaic III City of Birmingham SO/Hugh Wolff, cond.
		Aaron Jay Kernis: Air for Violin [Joshua Bell, violin/Minnesota Orchestra/David Zinman], Double Concerto for Violin and Guitar [Cho-Liang Lin, violin/Sharon...
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/kernis (1003 words)

	Classical Net Review - Kernis - Colored Field/Still Movement with Hymn
		The San Francisco Symphony asked Kernis for a concerto for English horn (good choice - there isn't enough concertante music for this attractive instrument), and that's what Kernis gave them, although I wonder if the individuals who awarded the commission were aware of what an overwhelming piece they were going to get.
		Several years ago, Kernis visited the remains of the death-camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
		Kernis was struck by the contrast between the modern image of the boy sitting on the ground and chewing blades of grass, and the historical image of what had happened on that same soil just five decades earlier.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/a/arg48174a.html (483 words)

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