Aaron Dworkin

Aaron Paul Dworkin ( born September 11, 1970 in Monticello ) is an American violinist and music teacher.

Dworkin was adopted at the age of two weeks of white parents and grew up in New York and Hershey / Pennsylvania. He had from the age of five violin lessons, attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and studied violin at the University of Michigan. Among his teachers were Vladimir Graffman, Berl Senofsky, Jascha Brodsky, John Eaken, Renata Knific, Donald Hopkins and Stephen Shipps.

In 1996 he founded the Sphinx Organization with the Sphinx Orchestra and the Sphinx Cham Orchestra, which serves to promote African and Latin American string musicians and annual competitions organized. For the final concert in 2002 composed Coleridge- Taylor Perkinson, the Symphony of the Sphinx. Several final concerts of the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra are available on CD. 2005 Dworkin and Sphinx Organization was awarded a National Governors Award.

Dworkin plays both acoustic and electric violin. He played a two CDs: Ebony Rhythm and Bar - Talk. He has also written an autobiography Uncommon Rhythm: A Black, White, Jewish, Jehovah's Witness, Irish Catholic Adoptee 's Journey to Leadership, the collection of poems They Said I Was not Really Black and the children's book The 1st Adventure of Chilli Pepper. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellow ( " genius award " ) in 2005, he also became a member of the Obama National Arts Policy Committe. From Barack Obama, he was appointed to the National Council on the Arts.

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