He has been a member of Tunas Mekar since 2014 and has been studying and performing Balinese and Javanese Gamelan for the last 15 years. In addition to his interests in Southeast asian music, Aaron is also a performer and scholar of South Indian classical, popular and folk music, Ghanaian drumming, and Arabic music. At the University of Denver he teaches courses on World Music, Global Hip-Hop, South Indian Rhythmic Theory, and leads Lamont’s Ghanaian drumming ensemble. His research has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, a Society for Asian Music Fieldwork Grant, two Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships in Malay and Indonesian, and two American Institute for Indian Studies Advanced Tamil Language Fellowships.