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Aaron Westman,
Acting YPCO Music Director-Fall Session
Since returning to California in 2005, Aaron Westman has become one of the most sought after period instrumentalists on the west coast. He has performed as a soloist with the American Bach Soloists and Seicento String Band, a principal player with Bach Collegium San Diego, Jubilate Orchestra, Sonoma and San Francisco Bach Choirs, and regularly as a member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Ensemble Mirable, and El Mundo. His chamber ensemble Agave Baroque won the 2009 Early Music America/APAP competition to perform in NYC, and was recently commissioned by the Museum of Jurassic Technology to collaborate on a forthcoming album/art film of 17th Century English music. Cold Genius was one of the first projects to be recorded in the Green Music Center. Westman has performed and toured throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Europe. He has recorded live and in the studio with the above groups, as well as for Hollywood, Magnatune, ORF, National Public Radio’s “Performance Today,” and on the NCA and Dorian/Sono Luminus labels.
Westman holds a Master of Music from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with a double-major in viola performance and early music. For three years, he taught at California Institute of the Arts, near Los Angeles. In 2009, Westman returned to his hometown of Santa Rosa, where he is a graduate of the Santa Rosa and San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra programs. He is delighted to have the opportunity to work with a new generation of talented young string players in Sonoma County, and to follow in the footsteps of two very inspirational YPCO directors.
In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, making beer, wine-tasting, gardening, camping, and hiking.
Westman holds a Master of Music from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with a double-major in viola performance and early music. For three years, he taught at California Institute of the Arts, near Los Angeles. In 2009, Westman returned to his hometown of Santa Rosa, where he is a graduate of the Santa Rosa and San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra programs. He is delighted to have the opportunity to work with a new generation of talented young string players in Sonoma County, and to follow in the footsteps of two very inspirational YPCO directors.
In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, making beer, wine-tasting, gardening, camping, and hiking.
