Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Aaron Jay Kernis |
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Birthdate | January 15, 1960 |
Birth Place | Pennsylvania |
Age (in 2024) | 64 Years Old |
Zodiac | Capricorn |
Occupation | Composer |
Aaron Jay Kernis is best known as Composer who has born on January 15, 1960 in Pennsylvania. Currently, Aaron Jay Kernis is 64 years, 10 months and 19 days old. Aaron Jay Kernis will celebrate 65th birthday on Wednesday, 15th of January 2025. Below the countdown to Aaron Jay Kernis upcoming birthday.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and professor who wrote concertos for cello, English horn, violin, and toy piano. He was known for "Dream of the Morning Sky," "Colored Field," "Lament and Prayer," "New Era Dance," and other orchestral works.Â
He studied music at the San Francisco Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, and Yale University. His teachers included John Adams, Charles Wuorinen, Bernard Rands, Morton Subotnick, and Jacob Druckman.Â
He became in 1998 one of the youngest composers to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for 'Musica Instrumentalis,' which was inspired by String Quartet No. 9's last movement by Ludwig van Beethoven.
He was born in Bensalem Township outside of Philadelphia. He fathered two children with his wife, pianist Evelyne Luest.
He and Elliott Carter were both recipients of the Rome Prize.
Aaron Jay Kernis is 64 years old today.
Aaron Jay Kernis was born on January 15, 1960 in Pennsylvania.
Aaron Jay Kernis zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Aaron Jay Kernis was best known as Composer.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Aaron Jay Kernis's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
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1991 | The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. |
1991 | Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system. |
2001 | Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online. |
2005 | ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon. |
2009 | US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off. This becomes known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" as all 155 people on board were rescued. |
2013 | A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others. |
2015 | The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the Swiss franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets. |
2016 | The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle. |
2018 | British multinational construction and facilities management services company Carillion went into liquidation – officially, "the largest ever trading liquidation in the UK" |
2019 | Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19. |
2019 | Theresa May's UK government suffers the biggest government defeat in modern times, when 432 MPs voting against the proposed European Union withdrawal agreement, giving her opponents a majority of 230. |
2020 | The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare confirms the first case of COVID-19 in Japan. |
2021 | A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people. |
2022 | The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts, cutting off communications with Tonga and causing a tsunami across the Pacific. |
2023 | Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashes near Pokhara International Airport, of the 72 persons on board, no one is believed to have survived. |
1988 | The birth of Daniel Caligiuri, German footballer |
1988 | The birth of Skrillex, American DJ and producer |
1989 | The birth of Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2008) |
1989 | The birth of Nicole Ross, American Olympic foil fencer |
1990 | The birth of Robert Trznadel, Polish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Marc Bartra, Spanish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Nicolai Jørgensen, Danish footballer |
1991 | The birth of Darya Klishina, Russian long jumper |
1991 | The birth of James Mitchell, Australian basketball player |
1992 | The birth of Joël Veltman, Dutch footballer |
1993 | The birth of Kadeem Allen, American basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Dove Cameron, American actress and singer |
1996 | The birth of Deebo Samuel, American football player |
1998 | The birth of Alexandra Eade, Australian artistic gymnast |
2004 | The birth of Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter |
2014 | The death of John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author (b. 1915) |
2014 | The death of Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1944) |
2015 | The death of Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (b. 1939) |
2015 | The death of Ray Nagel, American football player and coach (b. 1927) |
2016 | The death of Francisco X. Alarcón, American poet and educator (b. 1954) |
2016 | The death of Ken Judge, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1958) |
2016 | The death of Manuel Velázquez, Spanish footballer (b. 1943) |
2017 | The death of Jimmy Snuka, Fijian professional wrestler (b. 1943) |
2018 | The death of Dolores O'Riordan, Irish pop singer (b. 1971) |
2019 | The death of Carol Channing, American actress (b. 1921) |
2019 | The death of Ida Kleijnen, Dutch chef (b. 1936) |
2020 | The death of Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1944) |
2020 | The death of Lloyd Cowan, British athlete and coach (b. 1962) |
2022 | The death of Alexa McDonough, first female politician to lead a major provincial political party in Canada, former leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (b. 1944) |
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