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Trevor Weston’s music has been called a “gently syncopated marriage of intellect and feeling.” Weston’s honors include: an Arts and Letters Award in Music and a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and MacDowell, and a JACK Quartet Studio Recording Project.

Weston won the first Emerging Black Composers Project. The award commissioned Push for orchestra, premiered by the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen, was noted for “working in terse, delicate strokes.”

Performances and recordings of Weston’s music include Notre Dame au Millieu for Dan Flanagan’s recording The Bow and The Brush. The Bang on a Can All-Stars commissioned Dig It for the Ecstatic Music Festival. A New Song, commissioned by the Washington Bach Consort, Dana Marsh, director, explores the nature of music using original text by the composer. American Lamentation, commissioned for the St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue Choir, Jeremy Filsell, director, is an oratorio engaging the history of slavery and the church in the NYC area.

Weston is professor of music, chair, music department at Drew University and an instructor for the MAP and Pre-College programs at The Juilliard School.