Currently, Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Associate Chair of the Miami University Department of Music, Aaron Pergram is an international performing artist whose research area focuses on avant-garde music written by composers of the Chinese diaspora. Pergram’s devotion to repertoire expansion is evidenced by the growing number of new works forged from collaborations with East Asian composers. He has been performing in China since 2005 and taught at Soochow University (PRC) from 2014 to 2019. His musical journeys have taken him to Vietnam, Brazil, Cambodia, Australia, Thailand, Canada, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mexico, and Mainland China. Pergram’s current multinational commission project, The Dragon Dream, includes solo, chamber, electroacoustic music, and works with Chinese traditional instruments or vocal practices. Pergram holds degrees from the University of Kansas, Indiana University, and the University of Oregon. He also studied Mandarin at Beijing Normal University.