Greetings—I'm a Philadelphia-based composer and music educator. My wide-ranging work draws from many different traditions—including jazz, M-Base, Afro-Latin, electronica, extreme metal, hip-hop, and new music—and combines linear and cyclic concepts to create dynamic, integrated musical structures.

My music has been performed and recorded by loadbang, counter)induction, the International Contemporary Ensemble, confluss, Contraption, the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Ellery Trafford of TAK Ensemble, and Sae Hashimoto of Yarn/Wire. My music has been premiered at venues such as OPERA America, Symphony Space, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, and the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. My work has also been featured on the Score Follower YouTube channel.

I'm currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the University of Pennsylvania. I hold an M.A. in Music Composition from Stony Brook University (2023), where I studied composition with Matthew Barnson, Perry Goldstein, and Daniel Weymouth and taught several semesters of undergraduate music theory. Prior to this, I received a B.A. in Music from Columbia University (2019), where I studied composition with Zosha Di Castri, George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Andy Milne.

Here you can find a sampling of my recent work. Enjoy!

You can also find me on:

Website - davidacevedomusic.com
Instagram - @davidacevedomusic
Email - dacevedomusic@gmail.com

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