Trevor Weston

Trevor Weston’s music has been called a “gently syncopated marriage of intellect and feeling” by Detroit Free Press. Weston’s honors include the George Ladd Prix de Paris, the selection of his composition Bleue for the Detroit Symphony Unisys African-American Composer’s reading program, a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony.

Weston’s music has been performed by The Boston Children’s Chorus; The Choir of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue; The Starling Chamber Orchestra; Mallarme Chamber Players; The Providence Singers; The Tufts Chamber Chorus; The UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus; The Washington Chorus; Trilogy: An Opera Company; and The Manhattan Choral Ensemble. Weston completed the re-orchestration of Florence Price’s Piano Concerto for the Center for Black Music Research in 2010. The Grammy-nominated Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street, under the direction of Julian Wachner, released a CD of Weston’s choral works on the Acis label in the fall of 2016. The American Composers Orchestra premiered Weston’s Flying Fish, commissioned by the orchestra and Carnegie Hall in 2017.

Trevor Weston’s primary composition teachers were T. J. Anderson, Olly Wilson, and Andrew Imbrie and Richard Felciano. Dr. Weston is currently a full professor and chair of the music department at Drew University in Madison, NJ.