Biography
Rojas grew up in Flushing, Queens and attended Hunter College High School from 1994–2000, Hunter has been ranked the top public high school in America by The Wall Street Journal.He majored in violin at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he studied under the highly respected violinist and professor Mitchell Stern, and later studied composition at New York University.
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