Aaron attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School and graduated with honors from Boston's New England Conservatory of Music. His jazz compositions received awards from NEC, the Jazz Composers Alliance/Julius Hemphill Composition Award, and the John Lennon Songwriting Competition. Aaron has produced and performed full-length electro-acoustic soundtracks for Off-Off-Broadway plays, including Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth. Additionally, his works have been broadcast worldwide via Public Radio International, performed in formal concert settings, broadcast on PBS, released on CD and DVD, and screened in cinemas across the planet.

Aaron has worked with the director Masako Tsumura since she was a student, beginning with her first student film The Impossible. They then moved on to a series of short documentaries for SONY Japan's Global Event Village streaming video portal. Their next collaboration was on the feature documentary Arakimentari (directed by Travis Klose, 2004), for which Tsumura worked as Film Editor and Aaron as Sound Designer. This had theatrical runs in both the United States and Japan and garnered various awards.

Most recent, Director Makoto Sasa's feature documentary Fire Under the Snow is making tremendous impact due to its timely examination of torture in Tibet. Aside from several other hats worn on the production, Aaron composed the spellbinding music for its theatrical trailer.

In between these projects, he has contributed a substantial amount of music to projects involving children and education, most of them web-based multimedia, but one - Tangier Treehouse (directed by David Shadrack Smith and Charlotte Mangin, 2007) - was another feature documentary. Tangier Treehouse was broadcast on PBS in most major markets. In 2009 he will score another feature, this one helmed by the distinguished Dr. Stephen Trombley.

Aaron has been a member of Screen Actor's Guild since 1979, currently serves on the Advisory Board of The African Film Workshop, and formerly served on the Advisory Board of The Creative Music Foundation of Woodstock, NY. Other interests include anthropology, the ebb and flow of civilizations, Dharmic traditions, esoteric music theories, Japanese language and culture, Yoga, Pilates, "green" technologies, haute cuisine, and fine loose teas from Japan, China, India and Sri Lanka.

Aaron's daylight hours are spent working with a superb crew of designers and developers at Thomson Reuters, but his most important occupation - by far - is that of Dad! He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, daughter and son.