Aaron Jay Myers

Composer

Official website for Boston-based Composer & Guitarist

NEW ALBUM out JUNE 4

Purchase Clever Machines at any of these:

New Focus Recordings
Bandcamp
Amazon (digital)
Amazon (hard copy)
Naxos Direct
Barnes & Noble

Rhizaria / Dysthymia / Sepsistic at O'Brien's Pub
Apr
28
8:00 PM20:00

Rhizaria / Dysthymia / Sepsistic at O'Brien's Pub

My black/death metal band, Rhizaria, is playing at O’Brien’s Pub with Dysthymia and Sepsistic

Doors 7pm, Show at 8pm

21+

$10 in advance, $12 at the door

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Rhizaria (black/death metal)
https://rhizaria.bandcamp.com/album/demo
Dysthymia (black metal - DSBM)
https://dysthymiaband.bandcamp.com/
Sepsistic (death metal)
https://sepsistic.bandcamp.com/track/unholy-sludge

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NakedEye Ensemble - music for avid ears
Mar
16
4:00 PM16:00

NakedEye Ensemble - music for avid ears

NakedEye Ensemble presents pieces from their album A Series of Indecipherable Glyphs, including my piece, Strabismus, for flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone, electric guitar, electric bass, cello, piano, and drum set.

Music by Richard Belcastro, Molly Joyce, Rusty BanksAaron Jay Myers, and Frank Zappa

Sunday, March 16, 4:00pm
Black Squirrel Club
1049 Sarah St, Philadelphia, PA 19125

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Music & Rebels
Feb
7
7:30 PM19:30

Music & Rebels

In honor of the 250th anniversary of Concord’s role in the American Revolution, the program will feature the world premiere of Unrest by local composer and CCM faculty member Aaron Jay Myers, commissioned by Concord Conservatory.

Friday, February 7, 2025, 7:30 pm

Purchase tickets in advance or payable at the door for this event. ($25 General Admission and free for students 18 and under)

Join CCM faculty speaker Jackson Carruthers as he recounts how each featured musical selection broke with the conventions of its time, launching the artform and its audience into the next era.

CCM faculty artists soprano Rose Hegele and cellist Steve Marotto, along with guests, violinist Nicole Parks, pianist Elaine Rombola Aveni, and percussionist Matt Sharrock will perform this array of boundary-breaking music. 

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NakedEye Ensemble
Nov
13
7:30 PM19:30

NakedEye Ensemble

An Evening With NakedEye Ensemble

West Art
800 Buchanan Avenue, Lancaster, PA

Doors at 7pm, music begins at 7:30
$16 in advance, $20 at the door
Buy tickets
HERE

Are you ready to explore the edges of musical convention? Critcially acclaimed ensemble NakedEye brings their 2022 album A Series of Indecipherable Glyphs to West Art, a collection of works for chamber ensemble that take inspiration from rock and minimalist music. Featuring searing electric guitar parts, growling saxophone solos, virtuosic piano riffs, and compelling percussion, NakedEye plays captivating music by:

Frank Zappa: Sinister Footwear II
Whitney George: [These Hands] Hold Nothing
Rusty Banks: Dum Spectas Fugio
Molly Joyce: Less is More
Aaron Jay Myers: Strabismus
Richard Belcastro: Nepetalactone

Led by pianist Ju-Ping Song, this collection of incredible musicians makes music come alive in a dynamic way that few can.

More details on the venue website HERE.

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Jul
25
8:00 PM20:00

Semiosis Quartet at HSCI

Semiosis Quartet performs my piece I’ll Swallow Your Soul alongside several other pieces at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music’s High School Composition Intensive (HSCI), at which I am composition faculty.

8:00pm

The Boston Conservatory - Seully Hall

8 The Fenway, Boston

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May
13
7:00 PM19:00

Semiosis Quartet at United Parish in Brookline

Semiosis Quartet presents an evening of music at United Parish in Brookline, MA at 7pm

Aaron Jay Myers - I’ll Swallow Your Soul
Caroline Shaw - Entr’acte
Carlos Simon - Loop
Jessie Montgomery - Duo for Violin and Cello
Aaron Jay Myers - For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky
Darien Thomas - Fluid

Suggested donation $10-15 at the door.


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May
7
7:00 PM19:00

From the US to Hungary

NYC's Noise Catalogue comes to Boston to give a concert with violinist (and violist) Nicole Parks. They are performing music of composers with ties to the US and Hungary, including my violin duo For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky.

Sunday May 7th, 2023 - 7pm
New School of Music in Cambridge
25 Lowell St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Suggested Donation - $10-15

Hanjali - co-composed by Madeline Hocking and Dániel Matei of Noise Catalogue
Fluid - Darian Thomas
Compare the Way We Move - Molly Herron
On/Zeker - Anthony Green
For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky - Aaron Jay Myers
Selections from 44 Duos - Béla Bartók
Invertita - Traditional Hungarian, arr. Madeline Hocking

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Jun
12
4:00 PM16:00

Connecticut Summerfest presents NorthStar Duo

Connecticut Summerfest - Contemporary Music Festival

The Hartt School - Berkman Recital Hall

4:00pm

NorthStar Duo performs my bari sax and flute piece Save One Life, You Save The World Entire alongside pieces by Missy Alvarez, Anthony R. Green, Melika M. Fitzhugh, Nicole DeMaio, Eliza Gelinas, & Erin Leigh Harris.

The concert is free and open to the public. The concert will also be live-streamed here: https://youtu.be/ufwXIzeceVA

PDF Program Booklet: https://www.ctsummerfest.org/.../ctsf_2022_season_program... See less

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Mar
15
1:00 PM13:00

SoundNOW Festival - Chamber Cartel

  • Florence Kopleff Recital Hall, GSU (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Wednesday March 30th at 8 pm in GSU's Florence Kopleff Recital Hall

Chamber Cartel returns with its first concert in 2 years! Chamber Cartel is fortunate enough to perform during the SoundNOW Festival, a week-long contemporary music festival that highlights contemporary music and performing ensembles in Atlanta.

The program highlights works from composers near and dear to the Cartel's heart. We hope to see you at this FREE historic concert!

Program

Riding with Death - Drew Baker

The Toy Robot’s Mechanical Heart - Christopher Adler

Night Of Pan - Aaron Jay Myers

Three Canticles of the Birds - John Luther Adams

Cold Mountains, One belt, heart-break green - Carolyn Chen

Domination of Black - Drew Baker

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Feb
6
7:30 PM19:30

New Gallery Concert Series - Living In Your Wilderness

Jascha Narveson created a stunning video to go along with my piece, Paroxysm, which will be presented on this online event.

Join us with musicians and artists
Deniz Khateri, Jascha Narveson, Deb Todd Wheeler, composer Reena Esmail, composer/electric guitarist Aaron Jay Myers, vocals Danielle Pinals, Tyler Russell, & Andrew Wheeler, bassist and vocals Terrance Reeves, drummer Daniel T. Lewis, cellist Lev Mamuya, ​bass clarinetist Kevin Price, mandolin player Brian Potts, and NewGal Director & pianist Sarah Bob.

Zoom live reception with participants 5 minutes after conclusion of event.

FEBRUARY 6, 2022
7:30PM

VIRTUAL EVENT
in partnership with Longy School of Music of Bard College

For more details and tickets, click HERE.

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May
26
11:00 AM11:00

NorthStar Duo - Stronger Together

Thursday, May 27, 2021

  • 7:00 PM 8:00 PM

Please enjoy an evening with us as we play works, some commissioned especially for NorthStar Duo and others transcribed for our instrumentation in line with our work to champion works for winds.

Register and RSVP at http://grpm.us/5_aYfA

Hovory by Karl Reiner
Save One Life, You Save The World Entire by Aaron Jay Myers
Study for Flute and Sop. Sax by Buck McDaniel ***PREMIERE***
Duo for Flute and Oboe by Alberto Ginastera
Duo for Flute and Clarinet by Robert Muczynski

Register and RSVP at: http://grpm.us/5_aYfA

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Jan
4
7:00 PM19:00

NewMusicShelf Saxophone Anthology Recital

Alan Theisen (saxophone) and Marianne Parker (piano) present a recital of music contained in the forthcoming NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music for Alto Saxophone Vol. 1 curated by Alan Theisen. Composers include: Stephanie Ann Boyd, Wes Flinn, George N. Gianopoulos, Anthony R. Green, Chia-Yu Hsu, Lori Laitman, Quinn Mason, Aaron Jay Myers, Garrett Shatzer, Clare Shore, Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn, Alan Theisen, Cassie Wieland, Chelsea Williamson, Tetsuya Yamamoto, and Roger Zare.

Marc A. Scorca Hall at The National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave 7th Floor, New York, New York 10001

Saturday, Jan. 4th, 2020, 7-9pm

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Aug
28
8:00 PM20:00

Peridot Duo & Sentient Robots

Peridot Duo is performing my soprano duo Oh, The Irony and others. Also on the concert are Sentient Robots, Alessandra Hollowell, and Chris Gunnell. Other composers featured on the concert are Daniel Reifsteck, Mark Bolan Konigsmark, Christa Duggan, Izi Austin, & Zachery Di Lello.

Outpost 186

186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge, MA 02139

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May
31
7:30 PM19:30

Kyra Davies & Friends

Third Life Studio, 33 Union Square, Somerville, MA, 7:30pm

Anna Clyne - Rest These Hands
Missy Mazzoli - Dissolve, O My Heart
Biber - Passacaglia
Aaron Jay Myers - Lichens II (performed by my awesome wife, Nicole Parks!)

Special appearances by Natalie Cristina Calma Gómez playing Édith Canat de Chizy - irisations pour violon solo
and Gramm Drennen playing Ley Line by Jacob Cooper and In manas tuas by Caroline Shaw

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May
19
5:00 PM17:00

Queens New Music Festival

NakedEye Ensemble performs my piece Strabismus for flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone, elec. guitar, elec. bass, cello, piano, & drum set alongside pieces by Florent Ghys, Randall Woolf, Richard Belcastro, Rusty Banks, and Frank Zappa during the Queens New Music Festival. Friday, May 19 at 5pm.

Secret Theatre, 4402 23rd StreetLong Island City, NY, 11101

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Feb
21
7:30 PM19:30

NakedEye Ensemble - Burgner Chamber Series

NakedEye performs my commissioned octet, Strabismus, along with selections from its album “Storylines Crossing”, commissioned works and premieres on the Burgner Chamber Series at Lebanon Valley College.

Erik Griswold: Action Music 2 (2018) – US Premiere
David Smooke: Stony Run, Baltimore (2018) – World Premiere
Zack Browning: Decade of the Dragon (2015)
Aaron Jay Myers: Strabismus (2016)
Rusty Banks: Surface Tensions (2015)

Lutz Recital Hall - Blair Music Center At Lebanon Valley College, 101 N. College Ave, Annville, PA 17003

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