David Acevedo is a Philadelphia-based composer, performer, and music educator. His wide-ranging work draws from many different traditions—including jazz, M-Base, Afro-Latin, electronica, metal, hip-hop, and early music—and integrates linear and cyclic concepts to weave hypnotic musical narratives.

Acevedo’s music has been performed, workshopped, and recorded by loadbang, the International Contemporary Ensemble, line upon line percussion, Daedalus Quartet, counter)induction, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Michael Clayville, Erin Lesser, Sae Hashimoto, George Nickson, Matt Sharrock, Ellery Trafford, and more.

His work has been featured by Score Follower and has been selected for a wide variety of new music festivals and concert series both across the US and around the world, including loadbang Premieres, the line upon line Winter Composer Festival, the Yarn/Wire International Institute, the Suncoast Composer Festival, the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble New Music Festival, Longy’s Divergent Studio, CLICK FEST, the Lawrence University New Music Series, the Young Composers Meeting (Netherlands), and the Escuta Aqui! New Music Festival (Brazil).

Acevedo is currently a doctoral student in Music Composition at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies composition with Tyshawn Sorey, Natacha Diels, and Anna Weesner and teaches undergraduate music theory and aural skills. He holds an M.A. in Music Composition from Stony Brook University (2023), where he studied composition with Matthew Barnson, Perry Goldstein, and Daniel Weymouth and taught several semesters of undergraduate music theory. He received the Ackerman Prize for Excellence in Graduate Studies in recognition for his artistic and academic work at SBU. Prior to this, he received a B.A. in Music from Columbia University (2019), where he studied composition with George Lewis, Georg Haas, Zosha Di Castri, and Andy Milne, as well as trumpet with Andy Kozar, Adam O’Farrill, and Amir ElSaffar.

Soli Deo gloria!