Jeffrey Treviño is a composer and algorithmist based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose music explores the intersection of pattern and harmony through the invention of joyful game- and rule-based systems, often inspired by literary and artistic provocations beyond music. His compositional practice extends the long tradition of Renaissance and species counterpoint through systems of his own invention, devised in response to the hermetic and idiosyncratic exploration of found objects in service of a static and introspective music: Treviño's style adapts historical devices intended to propel forward momentum into new vehicles for the suspension of time's passing, through exploratory and playful tweaking and relistening that foreground the grain, character, and decay of sound itself as a material.
His works — for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and electronics — have been performed by some of the most accomplished soloists and ensembles of our time and premiered internationally at venues like Symphony Space, the International Computer Music Conference, the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Visiones Sonoras, and June in Buffalo, among others. He has been an invited composer-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Ecos Urbanos, and Arts Letters & Numbers. Through his partnership with BabelScores, his scores are held in the collections of over sixty institutions worldwide, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the British Library, IRCAM, the Juilliard School, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cambridge, the Conservatoire de Paris, the Koninklijke Conservatorium Den Haag, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and Ensemble Musikfabrik.
He holds a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California at San Diego, where he worked with Chaya Czernowin, Rand Steiger, and Philippe Manoury, and a B.A. in Music, Science, and Technology from Stanford University, where he studied with Brian Ferneyhough and Mark Applebaum.