Aaron Dessner

Quick Facts

Full Name	Aaron Dessner
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1976(1976-04-23)
Age	48
Birthplace	Cincinnati
Country	United States
Birth City	Cincinnati
Horoscope	Taurus

Aaron Dessner Biography

Aaron Dessner is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on April 23, 1976 in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States. For the Sleep Well Beast sessions, amplifiers used include a 1959 Fender Champ, a 1960s Fender Princeton, a 1970s Music Man, and Ampeg Gemini, and a Fender Bassman.

Dessner and his twin brother Bryce were childhood friends with Bryan Devendorf. In 1998, after Dessner’s earlier band, Project Nim, broke up, Devendorf invited the brothers to join his band The National. With Devendorf and the Dessner brothers were Scott Devendorf, Bryan’s older brother, and Matt Berninger. The band’s self-titled first album was released in 2001 on Brassland Records, a label Dessner co-founded along with his brother Bryce and Alec Hanley Bemis. The band’s second album, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, was released in 2003, also on Brassland.

In 2007, the band released their fourth album, Boxer, also through Beggars Banquet. Upon release, the album received widespread critical acclaim, and was named to “album of the year” lists. Several songs from the album appeared in TV shows and movies. In 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama used an instrumental version of the song “Fake Empire” in a presidential campaign video.

Dessner is a frequent collaborator with a wide range of musicians, including his brother and bandmate Bryce Dessner. In August 2008, Aaron and Bryce performed a collaborative concert with David Cossin, and Luca Tarantino as a part of Soundres, an international residency program for contemporary music and art in Salento, Italy and at the Guitare Au Palais Festival Perpignan France. They also performed at Matthew Ritchie’s Ghost Operator opening at the White Cube Gallery in London. Aaron and Bryce have also collaborated with many world-renowned orchestras. Most recently the brothers played with the Copenhagen Philharmonic in a concert billed as “Sixty Minutes Of The Dessners.” The program included “St. Carolyn by the Sea,” “Lachrimae” and “Raphael,” all of which were composed by Bryce Dessner. Bryce and Aaron have also performed “St. Carolyn by the Sea” and “Raphael” with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta during the Holland Festival. These performances took place at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam and Muziekgebouw Frits Philips in Eindhoven. In October 2011, Dessner joined his brother Bryce to perform “St. Carolyn by the Sea” with the American Composers Orchestra at The World Financial Center in New York City.

Dessner grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio with his twin brother, Bryce Dessner. He graduated from Cincinnati Country Day School in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1994 and from Columbia College at Columbia University in 1998.

Aaron Dessner Net Worth

Aaron Dessner is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Aaron Dessner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dessner often plays a 1965 Gibson Firebird purchased on eBay and refurbished. During the Sleep Well Beast recording sessions, he used the Firebird as well as a 1972 Fender Telecaster. During live shows, Dessner usually plays the Firebird and a 1963 Fender Jazzmaster.

Aaron Brooking Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American songwriter, multi- instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as a member of the rock band The National, and co-founder of Big Red Machine with Justin Vernon in 2016 based on a song they wrote of the same name for compilation Dark Was the Night in 2008. Dessner writes the majority of the music for The National, collaborating on songwriting with singer Matt Berninger.

After some critical success with Sad Songs, the band signed with Beggars Banquet Records. With the new label, they released their third studio album, Alligator, in 2005. The album received a positive response from critics, which exposed the band to a larger audience.

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In 2010, the band released High Violet, their fifth full-length album. The album saw both critical and commercial success, debuting at No. 3 on US charts, and going on to sell over 850,000 copies worldwide.

Facts & Trivia

Aaron Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Aaron Dessner celebrates birthday on April 23 of every year.

In March 2012, Dessner, Scott Devendorf and Bryan Devendorf teamed up with Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir for a live webcast, which featured two musical sets and a political discussion. The event was produced by Head Count, a non-partisan organization that uses live music events to promote voter registration and awareness.

How did Taylor Swift meet Aaron Dessner?

Swift had been a fan of Dessner’s long-running indie-rock band, the National, and she contacted him out of the blue as the pandemic shutdown was beginning. “One night I was just sitting at dinner,” Dessner recalled, “and I got a text saying, ‘This is Taylor. Would you ever be up for collaborating remotely with me? ‘

Does Aaron Dessner have a twin?

Personal life. Dessner grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio with his twin brother, Bryce Dessner.

Where does Aaron Dessner live?

Dessner and his family were able to relocate to their home in upstate New York as lockdown orders went into effect, and the musician soon settled into a groove of homeschooling his kids and focusing fully on music in a way he hadn’t in a while, due to the National’s regularly rigorous touring schedule.

How old is Aaron Dessner?

46 years (April 23, 1976)

What songs did Aaron Dessner write with Taylor Swift?

In addition to co-producing ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ , Dessner also co- produced multiple of the bonus “From the Vault” tracks that appear on Swift’s re-recorded versions of ‘Fearless’ and ‘Red’ that arrived last year.