Person
Aaron Dessner
Sound · Born 1976-04-23 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Biography
Aaron Brooking Dessner is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National, with whom he has recorded eight studio albums; a co-founder of the indie rock duo Big Red Machine, teaming with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon; and a collaborator on Taylor Swift's studio albums Folklore and Evermore, both of which contended for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2021 and 2022, respectively, with the former winning the accolade.
Known for
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Big Red Machine
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Musical Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Musical Guest
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Songs
Live from the Artists Den
Self
The Professor
Original Music Composer
Transpecos
Original Music Composer
C'mon C'mon
Original Music Composer
Jockey
Original Music Composer
Filmography
- 2025FireAid Benefit ConcertSelf
- 2024DandelionExecutive Producer
- 2024The National - Live At Montreux Jazz Festival
- 2024The National - Live at Primavera Sound Barcelona 2024
- 2023Buke & GaseSelf
- 2023The National - Live at Bearsville Theater
- 2022Really Good Rejects
- 2021JockeyOriginal Music Composer
- 2021CyranoOriginal Music Composer
- 2021C'mon C'monOriginal Music Composer
- 2021All of This Unreal TimeMusic
- 2020Folklore: The Long Pond Studio SessionsSelf
- 2019The National: I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York's Beacon TheatreSelf
- 2019The National - Live From Pukkelpop 2019Self
- 2019The National - Live From Ypsigrock 2019Self
- 2019Death is Elsewhere
- 2019The ProfessorOriginal Music Composer
- 2019I Am Easy to FindMusic
- 2017The National - Live at Elbphilharmonie 2017Self
- 2017The National: Sounds from a Safe Harbour at Cork Opera HouseSelf
- 2017The National - Guilty Party: Basilica Hudson
- 2016TranspecosOriginal Music Composer
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf
- 2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf - Big Red Machine
- 2014The National - Live at Sydney Opera HouseSelf
- 2013The Hunger Games: Catching FireSongs
- 2013Mistaken for StrangersSelf
- 2013A Lot of SorrowSelf
- 2010The National - 'High Violet' Live From Brooklyn Academy of MusicSelf
- 2010Out of a ForestMusic
- 2009Live from the Artists DenSelf
- 2008A Skin, A NightSelf
- 2005The National - Live at El Castell Embruixat
- 2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Musical Guest
- 1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Musical Guest
- 1959The GrammysSelf
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