Aaron Spotts Music
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+ Produced original hip-hop tension instrumental, Backspin.
+ Produced original track, No Comment.
+ Produced original track, Flowers.
+ Produced original track, Gold Thread.
+ City Electric performed at Florida State University’s 2024 Festival of New Music.
+ Remixed ILLENIUM’s “Story of My Life” with Sueco (feat. Trippie Redd).
+ Recorded singer-songwriter track, Ten Years.
+ City Electric selected as a finalist for the American Prize (instrumental chamber division).
+ Produced original track, Strata.
+ Composed original soundtrack composed for the short film, Imani’s Skin.
+ Rescored the soundtrack to the short film, Spring, for the Score Relief 2021 competition.
+ Produced original track, Press Forward.
+ Produced track, 50/’50s, which samples rock ‘n’ roll from the 1950s set to originally composed modern music.
+ Life for Life awarded honorable mention in the 2019-20 American Prize in Composition (orchestra division).
+ Re-scored original soundtrack music for Spitfire Audio’s Westworld Scoring Competition.
+ The Back Row Quintet (three trombones, euphonium, and tuba) premiered Origin Story in Tallahassee, FL.
+ City Electric announced as a finalist in Kaleidoscope’s 2019 call for scores.
+ Sketch Book selected as a finalist in the Chelsea Symphony’s 2018-19 Composition Competition.
+ Duo Rodinia, in conjunction with the Oklahoma Modern Music Collective, performed Two Days’ Bar Talk on their INTERconnection concert.
+ ImprovAbility, a new music improvisation video series, launched.
+ The Tampa Bay Symphony read Sketch Book (and three other works) as part of the final round in their Call for Scores competition.
+ City Electric, commissioned by The Ambassador Trio, premiered in Vancouver, BC at the 2018 National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Conference.
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Aaron Spotts (b.1980) is a composer of contemporary classical, electroacoustic, film, and improvisatory music. Active across North America, his recent pursuits have included: Launching ImprovAbility, a new music improvisation video series; having his orchestral work, Sketch Book, selected as a finalist in the Tampa Bay Symphony’s 3rd Annual Call for Scores Competition; Two Days’ Bar Talk programmed for performance at the 2019 SCI Region VI Conference; a commission from The Ambassador Trio, premiered at the 2018 National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Conference in Vancouver, B.C.; a commission from the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium; participating in the Albany Symphony’s “Orchestrating the 21st Century Orchestra” composer workshop; engaging in the Charlotte New Music Festival’s Max Computer Music Workshop; Somewhere Between Thought and Feeling being accepted to the 2018 SCI Student National Conference, and being performed in the 2018 Frontwave New Music Festival; the performance of his electric string quartet, The Light Through the Tress at the ACCelerate festival in Washinton D.C.; having his work Inter- selected by the Chicago Ensemble for their “Discover America IX” competition; participating in the 2017 Atlantic Music Festival; the performance of his Two Days’ Bar Talk at the 2016 SCI Student National Conference and Region VI Conference, as well as the 2017 FSU Festival of New Music; and having his acoustic string quartet chosen and performed as a finalist in the 2016 Bruno Maderna Composition Competition in Lviv, Ukraine. He also held the first Zwilich Assistantship at FSU during the 2015-2016 academic year, which provided him with an immersive study of the orchestra, and culminated with him writing Life for Life, which the FSU Symphony Orchestra premiered in the spring of 2017.
Aaron graduated from Florida State University (FSU) in 2018 with a doctoral degree in music composition. Having also received his masters degree from FSU, he has studied with Ladislav Kubik, Clifton Callender, David Lipten, Paul Richards, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Previously, he received his bachelor’s degree in composition from Western Washington University in 2008, having studied with Roger Briggs and Bruce Hamilton.
