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Aaron Blick
double bass
Aaron is a graduate student at University of Southern California Thornton School of Music where he studies with David Allen Moore, and is a member of the Long Beach Symphony. Aaron was a 2021 Principal Bass audition finalist for The Philadelphia Orchestra. That same year, Aaron was named a Music Academy Keston MAX fellow with the London Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a substitute musician conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and with the San Diego Symphony under Ankush Kumar Bahl.