Aaron Einbond is a Ph.D. candidate in composition at The University of California, Berkeley where his teachers include Edmund Campion, Cindy Cox, Jorge Liderman, John Thow, and Andrew Imbrie. He was born in New York in 1978 and has studied with John Corigliano, at Harvard with Mario Davidovsky, at the University of Cambridge with Robin Holloway, and at the Royal College of Music, London with Julian Anderson as a British Marshall Scholar. His works have been performed by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Empyrean Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, and the Festival MANCA. Awards for his compositions include a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two BMI awards, two ASCAP awards, and fellowships and scholarships from the Wellesley Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Voix Nouvelles, Domaine Forget, and the French American Cultural Exchange. He is participating this year in IRCAM’s European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies through a Fulbright Scholarship and Berkeley’s George Ladd Prix de Paris.