# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aaron-jay-kernis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:34:58.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aaron-jay-kernis"
name: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
slug: "aaron-jay-kernis"
description: "Aaron Jay Kernis is a Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning American composer serving as a member of the Yale School of Music faculty. Kernis spent 15 years as the music advisor to the Minnesota Orchestra and as director of the Minnesota Orchestra's Composers' Institute, and was the workshop director of the Nashville Symphony Composer Lab. He has received numerous awards and honors throughout his thirty-five-year career."
tagline: "American composer and professor of music composition"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960-01-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.11
  momentum:             3.846153846153846
  historical:           9.880346666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1868872/"
    handle:    "nm1868872"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ارون چاى كيرنيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Kernis"
    title: "Aaron Kernis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis"
    title: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis"
    title: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis"
    title: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis"
    title: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis"
    title: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis"
    title: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Jay_Kernis"
    title: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/35f82734-b9b9-4177-90ea-979e944e1150"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2299372"
    title: "Aaron Jay Kernis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump