Trevor Weston
Reviews and Honors
Overview
Awards and Honors
[2004] Composition Fellow at the MacDowell Colony
[2003] Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
[2003] Composition Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
[2002] Charles Ives Center Winner, Piccolo Spoleto Festival
[1998] Detroit Symphony Unisys African-American Reading Session finalist
[1994-1996] George Ladd Prix de Paris: A fellowship to study in Paris
[1994-1996] Auditor in the Pedagogy School of IRCAM
[1991, 1993 & 1997] Nicola De Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition
[1989-1991] Graduate Minority Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley
Publicity
American composer Trevor Weston
Chamber Music America Magazine, July/August, 2010
A stretch that fits
The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), January 26, 2007
Music will envelop listeners
The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC), January 26, 2007
Minding a composer’s business
The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC), January 15, 2006
Workers of art
Charleston (SC) Magazine, May 2005
Egyptian myth inspires composer’s chorus-percussion work
The Providence (RI) Journal,
February 24, 2005
Fairytales of Freedom
Flier for October 10, 2004 Starling Chamber Orchestra concert
City native composes a triumphant return
Courier News (Bridgewater, NJ), April 3, 2004
(Un)Dead Composers Society
City Paper (Charleston, SC), March 10, 2004
Union County Black Americans
by Ethel M. Washington, Arcadia Publishing, 2004
Recording
This is Thy Hour O Soul
Taylor Festival Choir, Robert Taylor Director
Trevor Weston and Robert Taylor, Co-producers
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by Trevor Weston
Centaur CRC2773
www.centaurrecords.com
Reviews
“…gently syncopated marriage of intellect and feeling.”
Detroit Free Press
Detroit, MI.
January 27, 1998“…simply gorgeous, image-provoking music…”
The Post and Courier
Charleston, SC.
June 1, 2002
“Harmonic idioms were inventive and fresh with a rewarding sense of phrase length and enticingly beautiful orchestral colors.”
Columbia Free Times
Columbia, SC.
June 12-18, 2002
“The program began with The Gentlest Thing by Trevor Weston, a lovely, meditative setting of lines from the Tao Te Ching. Its central conflict between gentleness and hardness was beautifully represented by luminous major triads, brushing repeatedly against harsh dissonance, the meaning increasing and intensifying as the piece gradually unfolded.”
San Francisco Classical Voice
San Francisco, CA.
November 9, 2002
“Trevor Weston’s compositions always reveal an elegance of expressive surface detail, a lucid formal structure, and often, an unexpected and innovative quality that reflects his refreshingly imaginative musical personality.”
The American Academy of Arts and Letters
New York, NY.
May 21, 2003
Interviews
WCPE 89.7 FM Wake Forest, NC, January 21, 2007
Life Goes and the Mallarmé Chamber Players Concert