Composition Master Class

With BOX performers Ancuza Aprodu and Theirry Miroglio and composer David Vayo.

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David Vayo (b.1957) is Professor and Composition Department head at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he teaches composition and contemporary music. As Coordinator of New Music Activities, he directs the annual Symposium of Contemporary Music, the New Music Cafe concert series, and other events in the School of Music’s New Music Series. Vayo has also taught at Connecticut College and the National University of Costa Rica. He holds an A.Mus.D. in Composition from The University of Michigan, where his principal teachers were Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom; his M. Mus. and B. Mus. degrees are from Indiana University, where he studied with Frederick Fox and Juan Orrego-Salas.

 Vayo has received awards and commissions from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, ASCAP, the Koussevitzky Music Foundations, the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the American Music Center, the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, and the Illinois Council for the Arts, and has been granted numerous artists’ colony residencies.Over three hundred performances and broadcasts of his compositions have taken place, including recent performances in Mexico, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Germany, and France and at the University of Wisconsin, Ohio State University, and the California Institute of the Arts. Festivals which have programmed his work include the International Trombone Festival, the International Double Reed Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Thailand Composition Festival, and three World Music Days of the International Society for Contemporary Music. His compositions are published by A. M. Percussion Publications, Bèrben/Italia Guitar Society Series, and the International Trombone Association Press.  Vayo is also active as a pianist performing contemporary music and free improvisations.