Aaron Alon

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About Aaron Alon

Aaron Alon is an award-winning composer, writer, director, filmmaker, and teacher. His concert music has been played in concert venues around the world, released on five labels, and awarded numerous national and international composition honors. He is a member of ASCAP and a past chapter president of Mu Phi Epsilon. Alon is also highly active as a teacher. He is the Chair of the Performing and Visual Arts, the Director of Music, and a Professor of Music at Lone Star College-University Park. He is a two-time winner of the Lone Star College Faculty Excellence Awards (2020-2021 at LSC-University Park and 2015-2016 at LSC-CyFair). He was also the Director of the Composition program at AFA’s summer music festival until 2018 and has taught for several colleges, universities, and continuing education programs. Since 2009, Alon has also been highly active as a writer, filmmaker, and composer-lyricist. His plays and musicals have been read or performed around the US and the feature film musical he wrote and directed, BULLY (2017), which has been screened in and awarded prizes from film festivals around the world. He is a founding member and president of the Board of Directors of Thunderclap Productions, a 501(c)3 award-winning nonprofit that produces new, lesser known, and underperformed plays, musicals, and screenplays. Alon is also a content creator for YouTube with over 8 million views. Current projects include two new stage musicals (THE GREAT WHITE WAY and MAD), a new stage play, new film scripts, and additional content for his YouTube channel. Alon holds a DMA from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, an MM from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a BA from the University of Chicago. His past composition teachers include Karim Al-Zand, Anthony Brandt, Shih-Hui Chen, Jean Milew, Marta Ptaszynska, and Orianna Webb. For more information, please visit Aaron Alon’s website at aaronalon.com.