Trevor Weston

Trevor Weston’s music has been called a “gently syncopated marriage of intellect and feeling.” Weston’s honors include the George Ladd Prix de Paris from the University of California, Berkeley, an Arts and Letters Award in Music and a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and residencies from MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Weston’s work, Juba for Stringswon the Sonori/New Orleans Chamber Orchestra Composition competition.

Weston won the first Emerging Black Composers Project. The award commissioned Push, premiered by the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen. The Boston Globe described Weston’s choral music as having a “knack for piquant harmonies, evocative textures, and effective vocal writing.” Weston’s music has been performed by; The Bang on a Can All-Stars, New York Philharmonic, Chanticleer, Roomful of Teeth, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, and Harvard Choirs.

Dr. Weston is Professor of Music, Chair, Music Department at Drew University and a member of the faculty for MAP and Pre-College programs at the Juilliard School.

Website: trevorweston.com