Also active as a presenter, Aaron has organized and produced well over 200 live performances for a variety of organizations, including The Juilliard School, The Skaneateles Festival, and Music Mondays. He has presented a wide range of prominent artists, including violinists Hilary Hahn, Jennifer Koh, and Mark O’Connor; conductor David Zinman; the Brentano, Miró, and Shanghai Quartets; pianists Robert Levin and Stephen Hough; composers Thomas Adès, Nico Muhly, and Andrew Norman; cabaret singer, Ute Lemper; soprano Lisette Oropesa; vocal octet Roomful of Teeth; saxophonist Joshua Redman; banjoist Béla Fleck; and Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
As Artistic Director of Music Mondays, he has built a critically-acclaimed, free series of innovative chamber music performances by leading artists and ensembles. Monthly events have often drawn attention by the New York Times and New Yorker and typically draw capacity or near-capacity crowds. The series has consistently grown in audience size, donor base, staff, and publicity since its inception. Events are free and open to all and provide a valued service to the community. musicmondays.org.
As co-Artistic Director of the Skaneateles Festival, Aaron programs and directs four weeks of performances each August in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Events take place both indoors and outdoors and include a wide range of music, including classical, jazz, folk, and world music. In the five years he and his co-Artistic Director, Julia Bruskin, have served as Artistic Directors, audience attendance at events has increased well over 50%.
As the Director of Juilliard’s PianoScope series, Aaron organizes at least two projects every year that bring together 10-15 Juilliard pianists to perform together at Juilliard and in venues around New York City. Recent projects have included Angels & Demons: Piano Music and Religion, Suite Dreams (with Juilliard dancers), Bernstein’s America (with Juilliard actors), and Piano Music of World War I (at the Morgan Library).