Aaron Krister Johnson is a Chicago-based composer, musician, and teacher. His experience ranges from the Western classical keyboard tradition, to folk music, and to modern electro-acoustic free improvisation. '' The Chicago Sun-Times'' called his composition "evocative", and his improvisations have been hailed by ''

Keyboard Magazine ''Keyboard'' is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer-based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, inc ...

'' as "challenging and creative". His work has appeared on National Public Radio, and has been lauded by Chicagocritic.com, the '' Chicago Tribune'', the '' Windy City Times'', and the online music journal Tokafi.com Johnson is founder and artistic director of UnTwelve, a group dedicated to writing music written in alternative tunings. Through the UnTwelve organization Aaron Krister Johnson collaborated with

60x60 60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous ...

as a music director or "macro-composer" to create the 60x60 UnTwelve mix contain 60 one-minute works with a theme of microtonality.Brianna Wellen
''Microtonality in 60 seconds''
'' The Columbia Chronicle'', May 3, 2010. He has worked in the area of composition of incidental music and sound design for theatre. His score for ''Peer Gynt'' was nominated for a 2005 Joseph Jefferson award for outstanding original incidental music for a play. Other theatre music and sound design credits include ''Madwoman of Chaillot'' and the Jeff-nominated ''Natural Affection'' for the Artistic Home, and Lakeside Shakespeare of Michigan's productions of '' Twelfth Night'' and ''

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''. Johnson originally received his education at the

Manhattan School of Music The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition, as well as a bachelor's in mu ...

Preparatory division, the

State University of New York at Purchase The State University of New York at Purchase (commonly Purchase College or SUNY Purchase) is a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It was fo ...

(BFA Magna Cum Laude) and Northwestern University (MFA Magna Cum Laude) for his graduate studies.

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