Trevor Weston

Trevor Weston’s music has been called a “gently syncopated marriage of intellect and feeling.”  His choral music demonstrates a “knack for piquant harmonies, evocative textures, and effective vocal writing.” 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 the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell.  Weston won the first Emerging Black Composers Project award co-sponsored by the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  The San Francisco Symphony premiered Weston’s commissioned work Push under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen in 2022. Weston’s additional commissions include Dig It, for The Bang on a Can All-Stars, A New Song, a cantata for the Washington Bach Consort, American Lamentation, an oratorio for St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue Choir, Aqua for the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and Subwaves for the Juilliard MAP orchestra and New York Philharmonic.  Weston’s music has been performed by the JACK Quartet, Chanticleer, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh, Charleston Symphony, Harvard Choirs, The Providence Singers, The Boston Children’s Chorus, Harvard University Choruses, University of California, Berkeley Orchestra, Yale Choral Artists, Seraphic Fire, and Sacred and Profane.  Commercial recordings of Trevor Weston’s music include Trinity Choir Wall Street -Trevor Weston Choral Works, Ensemble Pi -Reparations Now, Dan Flannagan -The Bow and the Brush, the Washington Bach Consort - Myths Contested, and Ecce Ensemble -Remembrances.   Dr. Weston is Professor of Music, Chair, Music Department at Drew University in Madison, NJ, and a member of the faculty for MAP and Pre-College programs at the Juilliard School, NYC.