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Aaron is a Brooklyn-based producer, composer, and mix engineer who creates music for wide-ranging spaces, from the Tribeca Film Festival to Theatre 80 in the East Village to the West Hollywood Carnaval main stage to KCRW Santa Monica to the Sziget Festival in Budapest. Since 2016, Aaron has served as in-house producer, composer, and mix engineer for the Gregory Brothers / Schmoyoho, with original songs collecting over 8 billion streams, dozens of iTunes chart toppers, and a gold record. Recent viral hits include It’s Corn (2023 Webby Award), Chrissy Wake Up, Space Is Cool, Hypotenuse, and Muffin Time. With the release of It’s Corn, the Illinois native becomes one step closer to achieving his lifelong dream of gold records for both Muffins (check) and Corn (fingers crossed). Other recent Gregory Brothers collabs have included Weird Al, Blondie, Darren Criss, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Markiplier, Ricky Stanicky (Peter Farrelly) Violent Night film, Netflix’s Sex Education, Cobra Kai, Lucifer, and The Umbrella Academy, Justice League film (ft. Gary Clark Jr.), Google, T-Mobile, Duolingo, Cerave, Mentos, Oreo Cookies, Hilton Hotels, Bassnectar, Jacksepticeye, and Takeo Ischi. Aaron helped orchestrate, produce, and mix the Gregory Brothers’ orchestral score for “In Space With Markiplier,” which was nominated for an Emmy Award (Outstanding Interactive Media) in 2022. In 2021-2022, Aaron also produced songs for the Punch Up the Jam podcast with Evan and Andrew Gregory.
Aaron co-wrote, produced, and mixed records with artists including Jack Fanselau, Michelle Odinma, Jackie Pan, Steph Thom, Abi Almeida, Akie Bermiss (Lake Street Dive) & Wayna, Aura Dessa, Robbie Klein, Julie Bienstock, Zach Berkman, Blake Lewis, and Claudia DiGiambattista. Aaron co-wrote & co-produced “Afterglow” by Private Language, released on Black Hole Recordings. He arranged and orchestrated the song cycle “Alien Love Songs” by Akie Bermiss for a 10-piece chamber ensemble alongside Pauline Kim Harris and Nicholas Zork, which premiered to a full house at the Carnegie Hill Concert Series November 2022. In 2024, Aaron is orchestrating and arranging songs for I Woke Up in the Sky, a Carnegie Hill Concert program featuring Catherine Brookman. Aaron co-wrote and produced the theme song for the podcast Girl’s Night (Stephanie May Wilson) with Amanda Wallace in 2024. In 2023, Aaron began releasing works as a solo artist and producer under the name SNOWSHOES, with releases featuring Joshua Crumbly, Stephanie Thom, and Zach Berkman.
Aaron was a finalist as both a composer and lyricist for the Fred Ebb Award for his first original musical Behind Closed Doors, which enjoyed a sold-out run in Theatre 80 off-Broadway as part of the New York Fringe Festival. Aaron wrote and arranged music for the feature film Permission (Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis, Tribeca Film Festival), contributed original songs, piano, and arrangements to Gil McKinney’s debut album (#1 iTunes jazz, #8 Billboard jazz) and Christmas album, contributed original songs and keyboards to Briana Buckmaster's debut album (#1 iTunes Blues, #3 Billboard Blues), and premiered an original art song cycle, Midtown Antoinette, co-written with Parisian soprano Lorelei Zarifian, for the Florida Tech / Foosaner Art Museum.
Aaron has composed original scores for films and theatrical productions including Where Hope Grows; Permission; Pew Pew Pew; Alex & Jaime; Cedar Cove; Dan is Dead; All the Lovely Wayside Things; Tall, Dark, and Handsome; Heart; Until We Have Faces; Shrew; The Fire Room; the Breakfast Show with Adam O; Companion; and Beyond Imagination, winning best score and sound design at the Hollywood Fringe Festival for his work on Fugitive Kind’s production of The Fire Room by Ovation Award-winning playwright Meghan Brown. In 2021, Pew Pew Pew received dozens of festival laurels, including multiple Best Score and Best Comedic Short awards.
As a solo songwriter, he served as Artist in Residence for the Spark & Echo Arts project and completed two subsequent commissioned works for Spark & Echo Arts. Aaron co-founded the SongLab workshop with artists Jason Manns and Nicholas Zork and currently serves as co-chair and music producer for the Carnegie Hill concert series in New York, featuring leading interpreters of classical and New Music from around the globe.
Aaron released his debut solo project, Nothing's Forever (Not Even Goodbye) on Milan Records (Warner-Ryko). L.A. Weekly wrote that Aaron’s music brings “a new life to the ancient music-hall/pop piano-man tradition, with clear-headed songs of genuinely witty lyrical oomph and, most of all, a historically informed musical depth – all delivered with style, grace, wit and elan, of course.”