Jeffrey Treviño (b. 1983, Oxnard, California, USA) is a PhD student in music composition at the University of California at San Diego (MA, 2007). He graduated in 2005 with a B.A. in Music, Science, and Technology (Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and Distinction) from Stanford University, where he studied composition with Mark Applebaum and Brian Ferneyhough, acoustics with Thomas Rossing, instrument design with Max Mathews, and piano performance / musicology with George Barth. Treviño's work at Stanford was awarded the Deans' Award for Academic Excellence, an honor conferred on ten undergraduates per four graduating classes, and he was a national finalist (California Region) in the 2006 Rhodes Scholarship Competition.

Recent composition commissions have come from the University of California at Berkeley Graduate Program in Media Studies, the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music at the University of California at Santa Barbara, bass clarinetist Anthony Burr (Speculum Musicae), percussionist Ross Karre, flutist Reiko Manabe, contrabassist James Ilgenfritz, violinist Mark Menzies, and the Arditti String Quartet, with notable premieres at the International Computer Music Conference (Miami, 2004, and New Orleans, 2006), the Oberlin Conservatory Percussion Institute, New York City's Symphony Space, Germany's Akademie Schloss Solitude Summer Residencies, South Korea's Seoul International Computer Music Festival (2007), Mexico's Visiones Sonoras (2007), SIGGRAPH (2007), the International Conference of the Society for Improvised Music (Chicago, 2007), the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik, June in Buffalo (2008), Portugal's Vila Real Conservatory, New York City's Miguel Abreu Gallery, and the Carlsbad Music Festival (2008). His electronic and orchestral film underscores have premiered at a variety of film festivals, including the Marin County Festival of Short Films (2004), the Rhode Island International Film Festival (2004), the Real to Reel Film Festival (2004), the Oakland International Film Festival (2004), the Cantor Arts Festival at Stanford (2004),the Stanford Student Film Festival (2004), the U.C. Berkeley Student Film Festival (2004), the True/False Film Festival (2005), the Wisconsin Film Festival (2005), and San Francisco’s Documentary Film Festival (2005).

An accomplished pianist and tubist, Treviño has performed in world class venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Sheldonian Theatre, and the Sydney Opera House. In 2005, Treviño debuted the SCUBA, a robotically augmented concert tuba, at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression in Vancouver. As a musicologist, Treviño has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the American Musicological Society in support of his work on Hollywood film and cartoon music, composer Charles Ives, and philosophies of musical expression in contemporary instrument design. Treviño's pedagogical efforts were recognized with the Department Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. His PhD work is supported by the University of California's Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship.

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