Aaron Spotts Music
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+ Duo Rodinia will release Two Days’ Bar Talk as part their upcoming debut studio album.
+ City Electric scheduled for performance in the Epilogue Concert of Florida State University’s Festival of New Music. Details TBD.
2022
+ April 24 & 26: The Chicago Ensemble will perform Inter- on their 45th season’s third program.
+ January: Remixed ILLENIUM’s “Story of My Life” with Sueco (feat. Trippie Redd)
2021
+ October: Released singer-songwriter track, Ten Years.
+ August: Began directing Vocal Ensemble at Maclay School.
+ June 4: City Electric selected as a finalist for the American Prize (instrumental chamber division).
+ March 10: New track, Strata, released online.
+ February: Original soundtrack composed for the short film, Imani’s Skin, released on online.
+ February 11: City Electric named as a semi-finalist for the American Prize (instrumental chamber division).
+ January: Rescored the soundtrack to the short film, Spring, for the Score Relief 2021 competition.
2020
+ December: Released new track, Press Forward.
+ November: Released new track, 50/’50s, which samples rock ‘n’ roll from the 1950s set to originally composed modern music.
+ August: Designed and started teaching Songwriting & Music Production course at Maclay School.
+ June 10: Life for Life awarded honorable mention in the 2019-20 American Prize in Composition (orchestra division).
+ June 3: Re-scored original soundtrack music for Spitfire Audio’s Westworld Scoring Competition.
+ May: Released new track, The Narrow Road.
+ March 17: Life for Life named a finalist for the 2019-20 American Prize in Composition (orchestra division).
+ January 8: Somewhere Between Thought and Feeling named as a semi-finalist for the 2019-20 American Prize in Composition (instrumental chamber music division).
+ January 6: Received ASCAP Plus Award for 2019.
+ January 3: Life for Life named as a semi-finalist for the 2019-20 American Prize in Composition (orchestra division).
2019
+ November 26: The Back Row Quintet (three trombones, euphonium, and tuba) premiered Origin Story in Tallahassee, FL.
+ October 26: City Electric announced as a finalist in Kaleidoscope’s 2019 call for scores.
+ September: Sketch Book chosen as a finalist in the American Composers Orchestra 2020 Earshot program partnering with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
+ August 29: Started teaching AP® Music Theory and Americana music at Maclay School in Tallahassee, FL.
+ June: Sketch Book selected as a finalist in the Chelsea Symphony’s 2018-19 Composition Competition.
+ June 6: Duo Rodinia, in conjunction with the Oklahoma Modern Music Collective, performed Two Days’ Bar Talk on their INTERconnection concert.
+ May 17: ImprovAbility, a new music improvisation video series, launched.
+ May 4: Two films, Phoebe and Imani’s Skin, featuring original soundtrack music were premiered at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts.
+ May 2: The Back Row Quintet recorded Origin Story.
+ April 13: Two Days’ Bar Talk was performed by Duo Rodinia at the 2019 Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI Conference, hosted by Texas A&M - Commerce.
+ March 18: The Ambassador Trio performed City Electric at Arizona State University.
+ February 27: The Ambassador Trio performed City Electric as part of Dickinson State University’s Clarinet Day.
+ January 28: Somewhere Between Thought and Feeling chosen as a finalist in the ICEBERG New Music 2018-19 Call for Scores.
+ January 20: The Tampa Bay Symphony read Sketch Book (and three other works) as part of the final round in their Call for Scores competition.
2018
+ October 13: New work, City Electric, commissioned by The Ambassador Trio, premiered in Vancouver, BC at the 2018 National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Conference.
+ September 27-29: Pierrot ensemble composition, Somewhere Between Thought and Feeling, to be performed at the Society of Composers, Inc. Student National Conference at Indiana University.
+ July 8: A Loss for Words for solo piano was premiered at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium.
+ June 30: Last Letter Sent for solo oboe, MIDI foot controller, and live processing in Max performed at the Charlotte New Music Festival as part of the Max Computer Music Workshop.
+ May 29-June 3: Participated in the Albany Symphony's "Orchestrating the 21st Century" workshop led by Christopher Theofanidis.
+ May 5: Graduated from Florida State University with a doctorate degree in music composition.
+ April 12: Somewhere Between Thought and Feeling performed at the Frontwave New Music Festival in West Palm Beach, FL.
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Bio
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.
