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Aiyana Braun (b. 1997) is a composer and sound artist who seeks to facilitate collaborative, intimate musical spaces in which deeply personal works may be cultivated. Through her work, she hopes to foster sonic environments which address understandings of social systems, identity politics, interpersonal relations, and encourages the unlearning of dominant vernaculars.
Education
University of Southern California, MM., Full Tuition Scholarship ...... 2020 - 2022 (expected) Composition studies with Ted Hearne, and Sound Design with Nina Young. Curtis Institute of Music, BM., Full Tuition Scholarship...... 2015 - 2020 Composition studies with Dr. Jennifer Higdon, Dr. David Ludwig, and Dr. Richard Danielpour. Electronic Music studies with Tod Machover (MIT Media Lab). The Juilliard School, Diploma, Full Tuition Scholarship ...... 2011 - 2015 Composition studies with Dr. Manuel Sosa in the Pre-College Division. New York Youth Symphony, Composition Program...... 2013 - 2014 Composition studies with Dr. Kyle Blaha.
Teaching Experience
University of Southern California, Employed teaching Aural Skills and Theory...... 2020 - 2022 (expected) Curtis Institute of Music, “Summerfest” Employed teaching Theory and Music History...... 2018, 2019 New York Philharmonic, Very Young Composers “Bridge Program”...... 2013 - 2016 Employed as Teaching Artist working with Middle School and High School students writing compositions for various new music ensembles based in New York, including the New York Philharmonic.
Selected Commissions, Awards, & Fellowships
Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Fellow...... 2020 - 2021 Danny Matsukawa (of the Philadelphia Orchestra) Commission for "Amid the Noise” ...... 2020 Kaleidoscope International Call for Scores (finalist)...... 2019 MusicaNova Orchestra Composition Fellow...... 2019 Berkeley Symphony Composition Fellow, mentored by Anna Clyne ...... 2017 - 2019 Albany Symphony Orchestration Workshop...... 2018, 2019 Composition studies with Chris Theofanidis of the Yale School of Music BMI Student Composer Award (Winner), for “Uncommon Threads” ...... 2017
From the Top (Winner) for “Abrasions”...... 2016
American Composers Forum “NextNotes” Competition (Winner), for “Abrasions”...... 2015 Eric Bartlett and Jon Deak (of the New York Philharmonic) Commission for “Abrasions” National YoungArts Foundation (Winner)...... 2014, 2015 New York Philharmonic Commission for “Memories in Sand”...... 2013
ASCAP (finalist)...... 2011, 2013 N and D Sosa Scholarship, from The Juilliard School...... 2011 - 2015 Marian Anderson Awards Commission for Maya Angelou and Norman Lear...... 2008
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Select Works, & Performances
Chrysalis: New Zealand - (Chamber Orchestra and Electronics, 6”) Commissioned by Oxford Alternative Orchestra, with Choreographer-in-Residance of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Sarah Foster Sproull, and FourEyes Production...... 2021 Amid the Noise - (Solo Bassoon and Electronics) Commissioned for Danny Matsukawa, Principal Bassoon of the Philadelphia Orchestra...... 2020
...of the earth - (Pierrot Ensemble plus Percussion and Electronics, 7”)...... 2019 To be premiered in Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music December, 2019 Practical Water - Commissioned by the Berkeley Symphony (Chamber Orchestra, 1111 - 1111 - perc. hrp. strings, 6")...... 2019 Performed by MusicaNova at the Musical Instrument Museum in Arizona October, 2019 Premiered in Berkeley, California May, 2019 Refractions - Written for the Curtis Symphony Orchestra (Full Orchestra, 2222 - 4221 - 3 perc. + timp. hrp. pno.
strings, 7”)...... 2019 Premiered in Gould Recital Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music
For Violin - (Solo Violin, 12”) Commissioned by Andrea Obiso and the Curtis Institute of Music ...... 2018 Premiered in Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music Meditation - Written for the Zora String Quartet under the mentorship of Tod Machover (String Quartet + Electronics, 6’)...... 2018 Premiered in Gould Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music One Horizon - Commissioned by the Berkeley Symphony (Chamber Orchestra - fl, ob, cl, bs, hn, tpt, perc, el gtr, hrp, 2 vlns, vla, vc, cb., 7’ 30”)...... 2018 Premiered at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive by the Berkeley Symphony Drop a Pebble in the Water - Written for the Curtis Symphony Orchestra (Full Orchestra, 2222 - 4221 - 3 perc + timp. hrp, amplified pno, Strings, 11’)...... 2018 Premiered at Gould Recital Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music Ruminations - Written for the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (Baritone, String Quartet, 20’) ...... 2017 Performed at Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music Premiered at the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival Waves - Written for the Curtis Symphony Orchestra (Full Orchestra, 2222 - 4221 - 3 perc. + timp. Strings, 8’) . . 2017 Premiered at Gould Recital Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music Uncommon Threads - (cl, vc, pno, 8’ 30”)...... 2016 Premiered at Gould Recital Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music Addressing the Sonorous - Written for the Curtis Symphony Orchestra (Full Orchestra, 2222 - 4221 - 3 perc +
timp. Hrp, amplified pno, Strings, 8’)...... 2016 Premiered at Gould Recital Hall Regarding Movement - Ballet commissioned by the Curtis Institute of Music and the Rock School for Dance Education, choreographed by Justin Allen (Pierrot + Perc., 7’ 30”)...... 2015 Performed at the CAPA Performing Arts Center in Philadelphia Premiered at Field Concert Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music Aiyana Braun, Composer | Resume 651 Malvern Rd. Ardmore PA 19003
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Abrasions - Commissioned by Jon Deak and Eric Bartlett of the New York Philharmonic (Cello Quartet, 14’). . .2014 Recorded in Gould Recital Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music Performed at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive by members of the Berkeley Symphony Performed at the Clarion Music Center in Lake Jackson, Texas for National Public Radio Program “From the Top” Performed at Macalester College for the American Composers Forum “NextNotes” High School Composition Awards performance Ceremony Performed at Paul Hall at The Juilliard School Premiered at “Cellofest!” by musicians of the New York Philharmonic,Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, and the New York City Ballet Orchestra Drifting - Written for the New York Youth Symphony (Chamber Orchestra, 2222 - 2100 - 1 perc + timp., hrp, strings)...... 2014 Read at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music by the New York Youth Symphony and De Capo Chamber Players Memories in Sand - Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic (Full Orchestra, 2222 - 4221 - 2 perc. + timp. strings)...... 2013 Performed in Paul Hall at The Juilliard School (String Quintet Transcription) Premiered in David Geffen Hall (previously Avery Fisher Hall) by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Case Scaglione
Radio & TV Broadcasts
“On Stage at Curtis” PBS / WHYY, Mini-Documentary about Aiyana Braun ...... 2021 Released January, 2021
NewMusicBG “Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green” - Abrasions, Movement III. . . . 2019 “On Stage at Curtis” PBS / WHYY, “Ruminations”...... 2019 “On Stage at Curtis” PBS / WHYY, “Uncommon Threads”...... 2018
“On Stage at Curtis” PBS / WHYY, “Regarding Movement”...... 2017 From the Top - Abrasions, Movement III, Show 321...... 2016 - 2017 Released April 18, 2016; November 7, 2016; July 3, 2017, 2021 dates tbd
Professional Affiliations
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Short Bio
Aiyana Braun (b. 1997) is a composer and sound artist who seeks to facilitate collaborative, intimate musical spaces in which deeply personal works may be cultivated. Her music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Berkeley Symphony, Oxford Alternative Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, MusicaNova Orchestra, among others. At the age of fifteen, her first orchestra composition was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic; another work, commissioned by Maya Angelou and Norman Lear, she performed at the Marian Anderson Awards in the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall to which Maya Angelou expressed Aiyana’s music “touched me deeply.” She has additionally been commissioned by Danny Matsukawa of the Philadelphia Orchestra (Principal Bassoon), Eric Bartlett and Jon Deak of the New York Philharmonic (Cello, and Associate Principal Bass), Andrea Obiso of Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Concertmaster), to name a select few.
She has won awards from the BMI Foundation, American Composers Forum, and has been featured on several episodes of PBS’s On Stage at Curtis as well as NPR’s From the Top. She will be a Fellow at the Center for the Ballet and the Arts in 2021, were she will compose several new works in collaboration with musicians, choreographers, and dancers from around the world. She was a Teaching Artist in the New York Philharmonic’s “Bridge” Composers Program, and is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division.
Professional References:
Dr. Jennifer Higdon - 267-205-2288, [email protected]
Mr. Ted Hearne - 773-750-4203, [email protected]
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