Aaron dai of the new york ukulele school performs orange colored sky
Aaron Dai (born August 3, 1967) is an American composer and pianist known for his choral and orchestral music. He is best known for his The Night Before Christmas for Narrator and Orchestra and his fifteen-minute miniature opera Hamlet. He is a founding member of and the resident composer for The Chelsea Symphony and has been the pianist for the New York City Gay Men's Chorus since October 2010.
Dai is considered a polymath. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in biology in 1989, after which he worked in epilepsy research in the field of molecular neuropharmacology. He graduated from the University of Houston in 1995 and Columbia University in 1996 with graduate degrees in architecture and continues to work as an architect today. In 2005, he received a diploma from Mannes College of Music in piano performance. Dai is a member of Mensa, a social organization whose members are in the top 2% of intelligence.