Trevor Weston’s music has been called a “gently syncopated marriage of intellect and feeling.” (Detroit Free Press) 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. 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.” Performances of his music include The Bang on a Can All-Stars, New York Philharmonic, Chanticleer, Roomful of Teeth, Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, Harvard Choirs, The Providence Singers, The Boston Children’s Chorus, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue Choir, Harvard University Choruses, Yale Choral Artists, Seraphic Fire, Sacred and Profane. 

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.