About Aaron Beraki

Eritrean American violinist Aaron Beraki is currently a senior undergrad at Kennesaw State University studying music performance under Helen Kim. During his time at KSU, Aaron has served as concertmaster of the KSU Symphony and is a recipient of the John and Linda Cooke String Quartet Scholarship. Prior to college, he was heavily involved in youth orchestras such as the Emory Youth Symphony, the Metropolitan Youth Symphony, the Gwinnett County Youth Symphony, and participated in All-State Orchestra for a number of years. In 2019, he served as concertmaster of MYSO at their concert at Carnegie Hall as part of the Viennese Masters Orchestra Invitational. During the past few summers, he has had the opportunity to attend summer music festivals on scholarship such as the Brevard and Sewanee Music Festivals in which he had the opportunity to perform under world-renowned conductors such as JoAnn Faletta and Keith Lockhart and with distinguished musicians such as Roberto Diaz, Jeremy Denk, Wynton Marsalis, Tai Murray, and many others. In addition, he has had the opportunity to play for distinguished artists such as David Coucheron, the Pacifica and Harlem Quartets, David Finckel, Philippe Quint, and Gabriel Richard.

 As an active teacher, he strives to make music education as fun, accessible, and rewarding as possible for each of his students regardless of age, level, or experience and incorporates his own performing experience as well as the teaching philosophies of his current and past teachers which include Charissa Leung, Francesca Anderegg, Timothy Lees, Lin He, Eileen Drew, and Eric Toomsen. Some of the recent accomplishments of his students include participating in the Georgia Youth Symphony as well as performing in the GMEA All-State Orchestra. Aaron began playing the violin at the age of twelve through the public school system. He currently plays on a 19th century Bohemian violin on generous loan from a private sponsor. In his spare time, he enjoys being outdoors, reading, and discovering new food places and coffee shops.