DAVID ACEVEDO

DAVID ACEVEDO is a New York-based composer, trumpeter, and improviser seeking the good, the true, and the beautiful within diverse musical domains. His wide-ranging work draws from many traditions, including contemporary jazz, Afro-Latin music, M-BASE, Western classical, extreme metal, new music, and free improvisation. He is also a music educator and dabbles in various types of writing.

David’s music has been performed by loadbang, counter)induction, the International Contemporary Ensemble, confluss, and Ellery Trafford of TAK Ensemble. He also performs much of his own work on trumpet. His music has been premiered at venues such as OPERA America, Symphony Space, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, and the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University.

As a trumpeter, David has been featured on several albums within the improvised music scene, most recently Vicente Hansen Atria’s Orlando Furioso (forthcoming, 2022) and Matthew Forker’s In Pursuit of Morning (2020). He has also led his own band Eyehear, which combined sounds from contemporary jazz, progressive metal, hip-hop, and free improvisation. Eyehear released its debut album Heard Mentality in 2018. David has performed in many venues in NYC and elsewhere, including Shapeshifter Lab, Spectrum, Rockwood Music Hall, the Bowery Electric, Williamsburg Music Center, Yale University, and Wesleyan University.