About

Aaron Petit, 21, is an American pianist and composer who studies with Santiago Rodriguez at the University of Miami: Frost School of Music and Mark Westcott in Portland, Oregon.

He has won 7 piano competitions in the NW including the Seattle Philharmonic Don Bushell Concerto Competition (runner-up), Metro Arts Van Buren Concerto Competition, and the Portland Young Pianists Festival Competition. He has performed with orchestras in Seattle, Portland, Salem, Renton, and Puyallup since making his debut at age 15 with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1. In the 2016-17 season, he performed Chopin's e minor Piano Concerto with musicians of the Oregon Symphony and Oregon Ballet Theater Orchestras with Maestro Niel DePonte.

Aaron's schooling has included Seattle Conservatory of Music and the Colburn School: Young Artists Academy in Los Angeles. His previous teachers included Mark Salman and Peter Brownlee. An avid teacher himself, Aaron has had over 30 full time students in the last 5 years

Music

Classical- Everything.
Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn, Gershwin, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky are just some of the composers that I have played in the past.

Most common is Beethoven, Brahms, and Stravinsky.

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