Featured Composer: David Vayo

David Vayo teaches composition, improvisation and contemporary music at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he is the Fern Rosetta Sherff Professor of Composition and Theory, and Coordinator of New Music Activities.  He studied at The University of Michigan and Indiana University.  Vayo has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, ASCAP, and the Koussevitzky Music Foundations, among others.  Over four hundred performances of his compositions have taken place, including at the International Trombone Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, the International Trumpet Guild conference, and three World Music Days of the International Society for Contemporary Music.  Vayo is also active as a keyboard player performing contemporary music, jazz and free improvisations.

Photo Credit: Marc Featherly