Aaron Einbond studied composition with John Corigliano and Mario Davidovsky at Harvard University. At the Royal College of Music London, he studied with Robin Holloway, and at the University of Cambridge, Julian Anderson. He has participated in masterclasses and seminars such as Wellesley College’s Composers Conference, Aspen Music Festival and School, and the June in Buffalo festival. Einbond attended the Darmstadt Summer Course in 2002 and the Fondation Royaumont’s Voix Nouvelles composition lesson in 2004.

Einbond was musical assistant for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players from 2003 to 2005 and for the Aleph Ensemble in Paris the following year. From 2004 until 2006, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley.

From 2007 to 2009, Einbond studied with Philippe Leroux and Yan Maresz as part of the program on composition and computer music at IRCAM, in conjunction with the Technical University of Berlin, thanks to a Fulbright fellowship and the University of California George Ladd Prize.

He obtained a doctorate in composition from the University of California in 2009 under the direction of Edmund Campion. While there, he also studied orchestral direction and musical perception. From 2009 to 2011, he taught at Columbia University thanks to a research grant from the Mellon Foundation.

From 2012 to 2014, he was associate researcher at the Center for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom and was also invited to speak at conferences at Harvard University. Since 2016, Einbond has taught music composition, sound, and technology at City, University of London.

Einbond has undertaken many artistic research residencies at IRCAM, such as in 2014-2015 (“A Factor Oracle for Timbre”), 2019-2020 (STARTS), and in 2021-2022 as part of the Acoustic and Cognitive Spaces and the Sound Music Movement Interaction teams. The latter residency, “Music and Artificial Intelligence: Building Critical Interdisciplinary AI Studies,” was supported by the University College London and the European Research Council.

Exploring the intersection of instrumental music, field recording, sound installation, and interactive technology, Einbond’s work focuses on collaboration and transcription. His creative process challenges the limits of perception between instrument, loudspeaker, stage, and place.

His works have been performed around the world by ensembles such as the Ensemble Dal Niente, the Empyrean Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Riot Ensemble, L’Instant Donné, soundinitiative, Two New Duo, and loadbang. His music has been performed by soloists such as Maxime Échardour, Alvise Sinivia, Samuel Stoll, and Marco Fusi.

His in-situ chamber opera Hidden in Plain Sight was coproduced by the Académie du Festival d’Aix and the Opera Lab Berlin.

Einbond is artistic co-director of Qubit New Music Initiative in New York, where he produces and programs multimedia concerts.

Prizes and Distinctions

• Grant from the Higher Education Academy, July 2022 to present
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2014-2015
• Georges Tallman Ladd Award from the University of California, Berkeley, 2008-2009
• Fulbright Scholarship, 2007-2008
• Scholarship as part of the CIRM (Nice) French–American Cultural Exchange, 2006
• Nicola de Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition, University of California, Berkeley, 2005, 2006, 2007
• Berkeley Scholarship, 2002-2007 to study at the University of California
• Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2005
• BMI Composition Prize, 1994 and 2004
• Festival International de Musique Domaine Forget (Quebec), 2003
• Sullivan and Farrar Prize, Royal College of Music, London, 2002
• Master’s Prize, Cambridge University, 2001
• Hugh F. MacColl Prize, Harvard University, 2000
• Marshall Scholarship, 2000
• Wister Prize in Mathematics or Music, Harvard University, 2000
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1999
• Detur Book Prize, Harvard University, 1997
• Winner of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search, 1996
• First prize in Bertelsmann’s World of Expression competition, 1996
• First prize for young composers from the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 1994
• First place in Delius Prize, 1994
• The ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996, with an honorable mention in 1998