Aaron began his studies at the Hebrew Arts School now the Kaufman Music Center, in New York City under the tutelage of the late Dr. Tzipora Jochsberger, followed by studies at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. During his 25 year residency in Boston, he attended New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied conducting, theory, and composition with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gunther Schuller, Frank Battisti, John Heiss, and the late sitarist Peter Row. Mr. Kula's interdisciplinary career in jazz, classical, and folk music led him to form the award-winning genre bending Klezmer Company Jazz Orchestra in 1997 (formerly Klezmer Company Orchestra). In May 2018 the United States Congress awarded Mr. Kula a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for his “outstanding and invaluable service to the community” in the field of music. An innovator of concert programming, he has conducted concert productions of complete Broadway musicals with full orchestra including: My Fair Lady in Concert (2019), Funny Girl in Concert (2018), Fiddler on the Roof in Concert (2017), and others. Mr. Kula also led the first Florida performances of Duke Ellington's Black, Brown, and Beige in 2011 and Bernstein's Jeremiah Symphony in 2016, both with the KCJO. Mr. Kula is artistic director of south Florida’s Kultur Festival now in its 13th year, and currently in residence at the Levis Jewish Community Center in Boca Raton, Florida. As a producer Kula is managing director of Kula Concert Productions and Broadway in Concert.