Online Piano Lessons from Ardmore, PA

I am a Juilliard-educated Composer and Pianist who loves teaching all ages and levels. Please find my complete bio below, I look forward to working with you!

Aiyana Braun (She/Her) is a composer and musician who has received awards and residencies from the BMI Foundation, ASCAP Foundation, American Composers Forum, Copland House, and the NYU's Center for Ballet and the Arts, and has been featured on NPR's From the Top, PBS's On Stage at Curtis, and I Care if You Listen.TV. Her primary mentors include Pulitzer and Grammy-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, Pulitzer Prize finalist and Grammy-winning composer Ted Hearne, and David Serkin Ludwig, Dean of Music at The Juilliard School.

Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic at age 15, Aiyana made her debut at the Kimmel Center's Marian Anderson Hall premiering a work honoring producer Norman Lear and poet Maya Angelou. She has since collaborated with the St. Louis Symphony (in a workshop led by John Adams), Berkeley Symphony (two-year residency mentored by Anna Clyne), San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, New York Youth Symphony, and musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York City Ballet Orchestra, and more.

She is an Adjunct Professor at Westminster Choir College of Rider University where she teaches Music Theory, Keyboard Harmony, and Ear Training; as well as Contemporary Trends: 20th and 21st Century Composition Techniques and Songwriting & Composition. Aiyana was a faculty member of the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composers Program (alongside Angélica Negrón and Pulitzer finalist Mary Kouyoumdjian), where she taught composition and piano for three years to advanced middle school and high school students working with the Philharmonic. She was a faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music's Young Artist Summer Program in 2019, where she taught music history and theory. During her graduate studies, she also served as a Teaching Assistant in Ear Training and Theory at USC's Thornton School of Music.

She is an alumna of The Juilliard School's Pre-College Division where she studied composition on scholarship for four years; during which time she was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and taught composition in the NY Phil's Very Young Composers Program. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music (B.M., Full Scholarship) where she studied with Pulitzer and Grammy-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, and Dean of Music at The Juilliard School, David Serkin Ludwig. Aiyana is also a graduate of the University of Southern California (M.M., Full Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship) where she studied composition with Ted Hearne and psychoacoustics with Rome Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow Nina Young, and music production with Jae Deal (credits include Charli XCX (Brat Album), Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, and Wynton Marsalis among others).