AARON KRISTER JOHNSON, Organist
Aaron Krister Johnson is a Chicago-based multi-keyboardist, teacher
and composer. His work has received glowing words from Keyboard
Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Windy City Times,
Chicagocritic.com, and Tokafi.com.
Fascinated by tuning and microtonal music, he founded UnTwelve,
a concert series and site that explores music beyond the standard
12-note system. His work will appear in the 2009 International
Mix of the 60x60 international multimedia concerts of 60 one-minute
works. Other collaborators include Fine Arts Chamber Players, Artistic
Home, Chicago Children's Choir, Kiltartan Road Ensemble, Lakeside
Shakespeare, and International Music Foundation. Appearances include
Chicago Irish Fest, Milwaukee Irish Fest and Old Town School of
Folk Music. Since 1998, he is the pianist, organist, and choir director
at Temple Sholom of Chicago.
His score for Ibsen's Peer Gynt was nominated for a 2005 Joseph
Jefferson Award for outstanding original incidental music for a
play. Other theatrical scores include Modigliani, Juno and the
Paycock, Petrified Forest, Clash by Night, Madwoman of Chaillot,
Natural Affection, Twelfth Night and Julius Ceasar.
His education includes the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory
division, SUNY Purchase (BFA Magna Cum Laude) and Northwestern University
(MFA Magna Cum Laude).
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