Full bio
An avid teacher and new-music advocate, Aaron Krerowicz (b.1985) graduated from Butler University with a Bachelor’s of Music in Theory & Composition in 2008; from Boston University in 2010 with a Master’s of Music in Composition; and from the Hartt School of the University of Hartford with a Graduate Artist Diploma in the same discipline in 2012.
Krerowicz currently teaches general music and directs the choir at Grace Academy in downtown Hartford. He also runs private studios teaching composition/songwriting, piano, mandolin, guitar, and trombone at Capital Preparatory Magnet School and Grace Academy, in addition to maintaining a home studio. These lessons are open to the public. For more information, including the registration form, click on the "Teaching" menu at the top of the page.
In November 2011, Krerowicz won a research grant through the University of Hartford to explore the connection between mid-Twentieth Century avant-garde art and the Beatles. The results of this on-going venture have been presented as lectures at the University of Hartford and the University of Cincinnati. Additionally, he teaches a thrice-yearly survey course on the music of the Beatles through LifeLearn, West Hartford's continuing education program.
Recent performances of Krerowicz's compositions include his Delta, at the Connecticut Historical Society; Fanfare/Overture by the Central Connecticut Central State Chamber Players; incidental music to Eugene O’Neill’s play Ah, Wilderness! by the University of Hartford Theater Department; his baseball-inspired chamber orchestra piece Asterisk by ALEA III; Starfish, a trio for cello, prepared piano and percussion, by the Xanthos Ensemble; his song cycle Woods, based on texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, by the Circle City Chamber Group; It's Just a Scale... by thingNY; and his opera Simple Gifts, based on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s 1953 interrogation of Aaron Copland, by the Reduced Spice Opera Company.
In addition to his compositional and teaching activity, Krerowicz also performs regularly as both an instrumentalist and vocalist. As a mandolin enthusiast, he has performed solo recitals and various other performances in the Midwest and New England. In early 2011, he co-founded the mandolin/guitar duo Major 2nd with guitarist Elias Mullane. He is also a founding member of Syzygia, Connecticut's mandolin ensemble. In June 2009 he sang with the Festival Russian Chorus as part of their International Rachmaninoff Russian Music Festival in Brookline, MA. He also sang for a performance of Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe in Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and Symphony Orchestra in June 2008. Internationally, he toured to St. Petersburg, Russia as a trombonist in March 2005, and to South America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay) as a vocalist in May 2006.
In 2010, Krerowicz co-founded SPASM, the Society for the Promotion of American Silly Music, with then-Boston-University-colleague Tristan Axelrod, on the belief that quality music need not always be deathly serious in nature. SPASM debuted on July 22, 2009 at the Coolidge Corner Branch of the Brookline Public Library in Brookline, MA. Krerowicz has since organized SPASM performances at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford.
Outside of music, he enjoys traveling, reading, and especially baseball.
Krerowicz currently teaches general music and directs the choir at Grace Academy in downtown Hartford. He also runs private studios teaching composition/songwriting, piano, mandolin, guitar, and trombone at Capital Preparatory Magnet School and Grace Academy, in addition to maintaining a home studio. These lessons are open to the public. For more information, including the registration form, click on the "Teaching" menu at the top of the page.
In November 2011, Krerowicz won a research grant through the University of Hartford to explore the connection between mid-Twentieth Century avant-garde art and the Beatles. The results of this on-going venture have been presented as lectures at the University of Hartford and the University of Cincinnati. Additionally, he teaches a thrice-yearly survey course on the music of the Beatles through LifeLearn, West Hartford's continuing education program.
Recent performances of Krerowicz's compositions include his Delta, at the Connecticut Historical Society; Fanfare/Overture by the Central Connecticut Central State Chamber Players; incidental music to Eugene O’Neill’s play Ah, Wilderness! by the University of Hartford Theater Department; his baseball-inspired chamber orchestra piece Asterisk by ALEA III; Starfish, a trio for cello, prepared piano and percussion, by the Xanthos Ensemble; his song cycle Woods, based on texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, by the Circle City Chamber Group; It's Just a Scale... by thingNY; and his opera Simple Gifts, based on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s 1953 interrogation of Aaron Copland, by the Reduced Spice Opera Company.
In addition to his compositional and teaching activity, Krerowicz also performs regularly as both an instrumentalist and vocalist. As a mandolin enthusiast, he has performed solo recitals and various other performances in the Midwest and New England. In early 2011, he co-founded the mandolin/guitar duo Major 2nd with guitarist Elias Mullane. He is also a founding member of Syzygia, Connecticut's mandolin ensemble. In June 2009 he sang with the Festival Russian Chorus as part of their International Rachmaninoff Russian Music Festival in Brookline, MA. He also sang for a performance of Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe in Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and Symphony Orchestra in June 2008. Internationally, he toured to St. Petersburg, Russia as a trombonist in March 2005, and to South America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay) as a vocalist in May 2006.
In 2010, Krerowicz co-founded SPASM, the Society for the Promotion of American Silly Music, with then-Boston-University-colleague Tristan Axelrod, on the belief that quality music need not always be deathly serious in nature. SPASM debuted on July 22, 2009 at the Coolidge Corner Branch of the Brookline Public Library in Brookline, MA. Krerowicz has since organized SPASM performances at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford.
Outside of music, he enjoys traveling, reading, and especially baseball.
Short bio
Religious concert-goer & new-music evangelist; eager mandolinist & basso profundo; Beatles fanatic, bicycle commuter & baseball aficionado; amateur gourmet cook & Wisconsinite; PBS watcher & NPR listener; short-sighted, yet tall in stature; music teacher & choir director; graduate of Butler & Boston Universities; graduate student at the University of Hartford; Sibelius engraver & YouTube uploader; composer Aaron Krerowicz finds his niche in an accessible post-avant-garde style, heavily inspired by the simplicity, innocence, and naïveté of childhood.
Curriculum Vitae
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