Violin & Piano Lessons with Aron Frank

Aron Frank is a composer, violinist, and music educator based in New York City. A recent laureate of the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, Aron beginning studying the violin at age seven, and began composing music and studying counterpoint shortly thereafter. He is a graduate of the Indiana University – Jacobs School of Music, where he received the Bachelor and Master of Music (MM) degrees, studying composition with Claude Baker, Aaron Travers, Don Freund, Sven-David Sandström and PQ Phan, Federico Agostini (violin), and Larry Groupé (film scoring). As a recipient of the “Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship,” he subsequently served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris for the 2021-22 academic year. During this time, he studied composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris with Régis Campo, and at the Écoles d’art américaines de Fontainebleau, where he was awarded a prize in composition by the Maurice Ravel Foundation.

Recent collaborations as a composer and violinist include with the Paris-based collectives Ensemble Calliopée and Ensemble Variances. His film music has recently been featured at the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey (Jury Award) and at Film Independent's Project Involve in Los Angeles. Aron's music for the concert stage draws on a wide range of artistic influences, including modernist art and literature. His works have been performed in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, by soloists/ensembles at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Indiana University, Cleveland Institute of Music, Music Educators National Conference, as well as the Wabash Valley Youth Symphony, Americas Chamber Orchestra, and Mariah Wind Quintet, among others.

Aron is a strong advocate for bringing music education to public schools, and has contributed to several El Sistema-inspired and community-based music programs in North and South America. In addition to his work with City Strings & Piano, he also serves as a Teaching Artist with the Harmony Program in New York City, and with Capitol Harmony Works in Trenton, New Jersey.