AARON WESTMAN (viola) performs with American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Bach Collegium San Diego, and Jubilate Orchestra, and is a Visiting Artist on the faculty of California Institute of the Arts, where he teaches baroque violin and co-directs the period instrument ensembles.  He has performed at Budapest Spring (Hungary), Frühlings (Germany), Fuglsang (Denmark), Mexico, Osterklang (Austria), and Savannah Festivals, Whistler Centre's Music in the Mountains Festival (British Columbia), ABS SummerFest, four seasons at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and at the Redlands International Organ Festival as viola d'amore soloist. He has recorded live and in the studio for Hollywood, Magnatune, Austrian Radio ORF, National Public Radio's "Performance Today," and on the New Classical Adventure label.  Highlights of 2007 include a world tour with Musica Angelica and the Wiener Akademie in thirteen performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, recordings with ABS and Musica Angelica, and the debut of a new faculty early music ensemble at CalArts: Jealous Nightingale Baroque. Aaron holds a Master of Music degree from the Indiana University School of Music, where he studied with Stanley Ritchie and Alan de Veritch, and also studied at Wesleyan University and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he was the only student of Geraldine Walther.  He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife Amy, two cats, and a chihuahua.